Whenever you reinstall Windows with an existing Linux installation already present on the hard drive, the MBR gets an overwrite. You can restore GRUB to the previous settings by booting a Linux Live CD and following the [...]
If for whatever reason you wish not to use your Linux SWAP anymore, you can use the swapoff command. Do a swapon -s to see to which partition SWAP belongs to then a free -mt to check available memory. If you still want t[...]
An even better and cleaner method than the reset button is to use Ctrl+Alt+Del. When even that doesn’t work and the system has frozen, there’s always hope. Hold down Alt+SysRq and press the following keys in [...]
Bad sectors are the bruises of your harddisk. To check if a harddisk is in good shape, we can use its SMART capabilities: smartctl -t long /dev/hda To check for bad sectors, use badblocks -sv /dev/hda [...]
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