Posts Tagged ‘hard drive’

Alright, so I’ve gotten my hands on an older desktop and the previous user reformatted the hard drive. Therefore, there is no operating system at all! I want to install Linux onto this system but how do I do that? I heard something about installing Linux onto a thumb drive and having the BIOS boot with the thumb drive and it will install Linux? Could someone please help!

I have an old XP computer that is finally slowing down. I am thinking about using a recovery disk to wipe out and then rebuild the hard drive. My problem is that I cannot find the original recovery disk. If I want to borrow someone else’s recovery disk, I will need a windows access or licensing code. Is there a way I can look it up in my computer before wiping out the disk, so that I can input it as I replace the windows software in it? Thanks.

How do I change the MySQL directory to "use" a database on another hard drive? I can’t simply move the database to wherever the default root "mysql" and "test" databases are.

I have my hard drive partitioned into two partitions. One has XP installed and the other has GNU Linux (Debian) installed. I used to be able to choose which operating system to load when i turned the computer on using GRUB boot manager which came packaged with Debian. The problem is that I had to reformat the XP partition and so now I can no longer choose a partition to load but it automatically goes into windows. How can I get back onto Linux when i want to.
Thanks.

can i run linux on a 20 gig hard drive with 256 ram and a Intel p 2

I have the OS as an iso file. I’m assuming that I would partition the hard drive of the netbook, and then mount the image using a program like Alcohol 120%. Then install the OS onto the blank partition. Finally boot the new partition and delete the previous partition. If I’m wrong please let me know. Thank you.

I want to be able to switch between using Linux and Windows without overloading or complicating one hard drive. Are there any pitfalls with running different operating systems in seperate hard drives?

I need to rebuild my computer. The hard drive has vista home basic all ready install on it. I’ve lost the OS disk .I plan to buy a new motherboard & CPU.Has anyone ever replaced the CPU with out reinstalling the OS?