How To Rapidly Clean / Wipe Hard Disk Drive

March 18th, 2008 In Linux you can use the dd command to copy MBR from one hard disk to another. You can also use dd to backup your master boot record to a different (or same) media.

August 26th, 2006 Suddenly my Hard-disk & MySQL Server had gone read-only, thereby making this blog (because it is cached) and other sites inaccessible, including ssh access. Do you have any idea why this could have happened? A hard reboot rectified the error for now.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

August 22nd, 2007 Fedora project has created a simple script to install Fedora 7 on a USB Drive with 1GB+ capacity. To use the script you will need two things: 1.

January 19th, 2009 Are you a Vista user who also wants to run the Windows 7 OS?  Let me tell you, installing Windows 7 on another drive on your system would crop up a mess. I did the same with my dual boot laptop and to my utter dismay, the partition of the other operating system (Vista in my case) was not showing.

January 15th, 2007 Most modern hard disks have S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) technology built in which, if enabled, allows you to query the hard drive about it's health and performance.

October 5th, 2008 The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail.

September 3rd, 2007 Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystems (see below) to an image file. It is a free and open source alternative to the popular software Norton Ghost or DriveImage.

January 7th, 2009 CDs and DVDs are finding their places at garbage boxes these days. To run portable OSes from CD is an age old process.

June 30th, 2009 A recent study from Google exposes that 8% of computer hard drives are most likely to fail within two years of operation. Well, that implies every twelve computer hard drive would crash within first 24 months of operation.

January 20th, 2009 Things kept will rot if you don't stitch in time. This is for those of you not in a habit of cleansing you hard disk.

March 23rd, 2009 Perhaps the smallest and still stable desktop based Linux version is Tiny Core Linux. It takes only 10MB size and runs on USB drive, CD or an internal hard disk drive, almost anywhere you want it to.

March 6th, 2009 There's a gamut of data recovery tools to recover the deleted files. Most of them are paid such as the GetDataBack and EasyRecovery, but I was looking for a free one.

September 3rd, 2007 SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.