{"id":373,"date":"2007-12-13T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/13\/ultimate-boot-cd\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:41:17","slug":"ultimate-boot-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/13\/ultimate-boot-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Boot CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatebootcd.com\/\">Ultimate Boot CD<\/a> saves the day again! This time, my 500 GB drive with lots of important stuff backed up to it randomly wasn&#8217;t being detected. Windows saw it as a raw, unformated disk, and Linux wouldn&#8217;t mount it citing disk problems.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I had some problems at first&#8230; It&#8217;s a 500 GB drive, which is greater than 137 GB. It&#8217;s also mounted over USB, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102\">this brilliant piece of technology<\/a>. So DOS-based file tools were understandably a bit confused. I ended up throwing the disk in my old desktop machine, where it was used as a &#8220;real&#8221; IDE drive instead of a USB external drive. And it turns out that most of the programs can cope with it being 500GB.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is one of those classic problems where I have no idea what actually &#8220;fixed&#8221; it. I ran a bad block check (which takes <em>forever<\/em> on a 500GB disk!), and was actually somewhat irritated when it finished having found nary a bad block. But as I poked around looking at other options, I found that filesystem tools were showing me files on the drive. All my old data? Intact!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, burn yourself a copy of UBCD and keep it with your computers. It&#8217;ll save the day. Previously, I&#8217;ve used it to reset computer passwords for a professor, and to fix a broken (err, missing) bootloader.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimate Boot CD saves the day again! This time, my 500 GB drive with lots of important stuff backed up to it randomly wasn&#8217;t being detected. Windows saw it as a raw, unformated disk, and Linux wouldn&#8217;t mount it citing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/13\/ultimate-boot-cd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,13,15,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-hero-of-the-day","category-linux-tips","category-living","category-programming","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}