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I tried running Disk Utility to fix disk and repair permissions. That did not fix the issue. Thanks for the suggestion :-) We manually pulled out the harddrive and used a sata to usb connector along with "Mac Drive". This worked to retrieve all the data. That was our main priority. We are going to put the hard drive back in and try and do an archive and install. If that does not work, we will just format and start fresh. I will let you know how it goes.

I have a macbook that no longer boots after an update. I would like to pull the data off then reload clean. I tried using ubuntu 8.04. I am able to browse all the files, but when I goto copy them I get permission problems in regards to no read access. I do have read access, since I can browse them. Another option would be to pull the drive, hook it up to a usb cable then use macdrive. Any ideas to another live cd, similar to linux that may not give me the permission issues? Any other suggestions to getting the data off? For what its worth, the owner tried reinstalling, but it froze up.

this is a great free cd/dvd burning program http://cdburnerxp.se/

While Jogging and listening to Windows Weekly. I think i figured out what the problem was. The particular laptop, VGN-cs110e, some models were sold with 64 bit Vista. The disc I had was 32 bit. This was the first OEM computer I have even came across the did not have a 32 bit install of Windows. So the 64 bit key was not compatible with my 32 bit OEM disc. It all makes sence. Even after doing a restore using the built in partition, my wife said many things were buggy and not working(I am guessing, because it was 64 bit). Since we installed 32 bit vista on it, she has not had any odd issues.

Bank sites and most sites that take credit card info use ssl encryption. You can tell by looking at the web address. If it starts with https:// instead of http://, you know it is encrypted.

imagine if all 800 billion was kicked back to every person who files an income tax form, even if they owed no taxes. Then each of these people would spend this money how they wanted. That would guarantee the biggest growth ever in the world economy. THAT WOULD CREATE TRUE STIMULUS.

unless you have more then 192 mbs of ram available(maybe you upgraded), you are fighting a lost cause. Running xp xp3 with any antiviurs is going to put you into using swap.

You need an ide drive as you stated, this is a SATA drive. That drive will not work The DVD burner you are looking at will work fine

The government needs to stay out of it. Why do we think we know how to manage a business better then them. We have no right to tell them what to pay their employees. Salary caps are just pandering to the people.

The thought of spending several hours on the phone sounds hellish. edit add later// I considered calling sony, but all they would have told me would be to use one of their restore cds. I did not want to do that.

I had a Sony Vaio laptop that came preinstalled with an OEM copy of Vista Home Premium. When I tried to reload it using an OEM Vista dvd it rejected the key. I have never had a key rejected before. My only thought was the key was misprinted. Any ideas to why the key would not have worked? For what its worth, this dvd works fine using any other oem Vista key.

All drugs, including alcohol kill. Why does it make sense to throw Meth users in prison, but not throw alcoholics and others drug pot users in prison. Meth and cocaine are horribly addicting drugs, but it still makes more sense to treat hard-drug addicts as people with a medical condition(this is how we treat alcoholics) then a criminal. The sad thing is we have to let violent offenders out of prison early to make room for non-violent drug offenders like me. I have many good friends who have good hearts who can't stop using drugs, who are now serving many years in prison. What a horrible waste

I personally think all drugs should be legalized. Drug prohibition causes much more harm then good. Keep in mind i was a daily drug user from the age fo 14 till I was 28. The last 7 years of my drug addiction, I was an IV drug addict, mainly METH(I still have all my teeth :-) ). To support my habit, I started selling them at the age of 15 till I cleaned up. I have been clean and sober with the help of AA for the last 8 years. I may have a different perspective then a lot of people. Legal or illegal is not going to make a difference. If you are inclined to use them you will. All the money we w

You could boot the system with a live cd like bartpe and try to delete them.

Thats what it seems to do. It is different then the way things seem to work with linux

as far as I know, you need everything in that folder

I am trying to run some commands in my shell that require the sudo command. For whatever reason, it is not excepting my root password. Any ideas why? edit added later// I can use the sudo command from my admin account, but that seems dumb. Shouldn't I be able to run a shell from any user account and use sudo? Another thing that seems different from what I am used to. I am not able to su to my admin account from a shell started from my regular user account. Is their some thing similar to Linux, like adding the user to the "wheel" group?

what is the realtek model. The most common chipset is the realtek 8139. Those drivers are definitely available

If you can see them, why not just manually delete them?

NTFS without a quick format. It only takes a bit to reload, I would at least try that one more time.

You can definitely have bad sectors(which typically grow) and still not have SMART flag it as bad. I am also weighting my diagnosis of a bad drive based on dban not being able to complete. If it was me, I would try reformatting, using the slow method, then reinstall again. Something seems really wrong. For testing purposes, do you have another laptop drive laying around?

I brought my inexpensive laser jet 1018 home to get some work done. Macs are magical and just work. Anyways, it looks like I will be spending the afternoon getting my printer to work instead of getting real work done http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/INSTALL.osx After this is done, I can share it with my windows xp laptop.

If you are having all these odd problems after formatting and reinstalling, it is probably because your hard drive is failing.

Thats a tough call. I am kind of on the fence.

Thanks, those are handy things to know.