http://www.basilgohar.com/blog/2006/11/06/the-heroic-story-of-the-recovery-of-a-crashed-laptop-with-a-corrupted-hard-drive/ Technology, Development, & Interesting Stuph Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.basilgohar.com/blog/2006/11/06/the-heroic-story-of-the-recovery-of-a-crashed-laptop-with-a-corrupted-hard-drive/#comment-9238 HidayahTech » Blog now completely Creative Commons-licensed Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:21:38 +0000 http://www.basilgohar.com/blog/2006/11/06/the-heroic-story-of-the-recovery-of-a-crashed-laptop-with-a-corrupted-hard-drive/#comment-9238 [...] online projects, my tirade against anti-userism, a heart-warming story of love, loss, and & hard disks, the possible (at least, then) merger of Yahoo! & Google, natural sounds recorded with my H4, [...] [...] online projects, my tirade against anti-userism, a heart-warming story of love, loss, and & hard disks, the possible (at least, then) merger of Yahoo! & Google, natural sounds recorded with my H4, [...]

]]> http://www.basilgohar.com/blog/2006/11/06/the-heroic-story-of-the-recovery-of-a-crashed-laptop-with-a-corrupted-hard-drive/#comment-960 HidayahTech » Blog Archive » Fedora Core 6 running at work Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:28:04 +0000 http://www.basilgohar.com/blog/2006/11/06/the-heroic-story-of-the-recovery-of-a-crashed-laptop-with-a-corrupted-hard-drive/#comment-960 [...] However, after researching a bit, I discovered that System Rescue CD (yes, the very same one mentioned here) has the utility qtparted, which uses the ntfsresize utility, which doesn’t care about such issues! It can safely resize NTFS partitions without destroying the data - a plus in my case. So, booting off the rescue CD, I loaded up qtparted, and within 10 minutes, I had resized an 80GB NTFS partition down to just 10GB, leaving nearly 70GB free for the glory of the ext3 filesystem! [...] [...] However, after researching a bit, I discovered that System Rescue CD (yes, the very same one mentioned here) has the utility qtparted, which uses the ntfsresize utility, which doesn’t care about such issues! It can safely resize NTFS partitions without destroying the data - a plus in my case. So, booting off the rescue CD, I loaded up qtparted, and within 10 minutes, I had resized an 80GB NTFS partition down to just 10GB, leaving nearly 70GB free for the glory of the ext3 filesystem! [...]

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