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When I was previously recovering lost files of my home folder, I wrote scripts to automatically rename recovered files based on their meta info so that I don’t need to go through them one by one. That worked for me at that time, but I must say it was quite a tedious exercise, as there [...]

Often time the Master Boot Record (MBR) is also lost / corrupted when the we’re having problem with the partition table, and so here I extend my previous post on recovering lost partition table using the Ubuntu Live CD.
First of all, let’s mount the related stuff;

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /media/
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o [...]

My friend suddenly ask me for a Ubuntu Live CD and upon being asked he told me that he has not been able to boot his machine for getting the Operating System not found error. I’m posting here on how did I helped him out with the problem for documentation.
The program I used was gpart, [...]

I received a package earlier today, and was very happy to find out that it’s the Huawei E220 that I ordered few days ago. This Huawei E220 is a 3G card that supports speed of up to 3.6 Mbps, using HSDPA technology, and it makes me can’t wait to have it work with Gutsy Gibbon. [...]