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That's some tasty hardware, though I don't think I am well versed enough to put to practical use the more obscure hardware and software such as the RouterStation Pro. I think it's just slightly past my level of understanding (being able to put it to practical use, that is). For example, I don't begin to understand why it uses +40VDC - +56VDC, or why it has RS232 support, or why it would need two radios, could I add a daughter board for e-SATA support, would there be limitations as to which kind of daughter boards I could install, where is a person supposed to come across a case for such a board.......and so on. I have a hard time coming across interesting tech and then not being compelled to learn all there is to know about it. Which reminds me...........

That's cool stuff! Now that I know the standards and tech exist, I have to learn how to use it.

I guess I'm just gonna have to go with USB NAS, as I'm not sure about imaging a HDD over ethernet. Maybe I could get a NAS enclosure that connects to the router via a USB port, and connects to the actual HDD via SATA, that way I could take the disk out of its enclosure and write an image to it using SATA?

I don't have a NAS box yet. I've been thinking about getting one, but I've known that my router is on it's way out for a while, so I've been waiting until I get the router to buy the NAS, this way I have more options on which NAS as well as which router I can get. I will use the NAS's HDD to backup critical data from all of my machines, and it will also be used to do a complete bit for bit image of one machine's HDD. I want to be able to connect the NAS's HDD to that one machine using SATA so that it won't take 6 hours to image. So if I can get a router that has SATA, as well as a NAS solution that has SATA, while completely avoiding USB altogether, I will be happy. Any new advice based on this info?

The E2000 is pretty close to what I want, but I forgot to mention that I need to have at least one, preferably two, USB ports. One USB and one SATA would be fine too. Having two USB is not a must since I can still use the printer over network without connecting it directly to the router, but I have to have the USB or SATA for network attached storage, unless there is a better way to do that?

I need a new router. My current one is the old wrt54g. I just got some wifi bluray players for watching streaming netflix, and the one farthest from the router/ap gets a weak signal and so its very slow. I have one machine on my network that has a pci 802.11g card, so i need the router to support that until i get a new pci card that supports 802.11n. I want my new one to work at 5Ghz. Suggestions?

Wow, nothing

Learning by mistake is something that has served me well in the past, but I don't really have time for it these days. Losing my Windows partition and a good percentage of the space on my HDD to a rogue partition is not exactly a good way, IMO. VMing would be easy, but I've never been the kind of person that likes easy, at least not until I know I have the skills to do it the hard way. In this case, I still don't know what went wrong and I'm not willing to spend the better part of a weekend restoring this machine to its previous state in the event that the same thing happens again. Instinct tells me that this problem was caused by a singular simple and common mistake/error. Hopefully someone can come along and tell me what that might have been because I really would like to have easy access to Ubuntu on the computer that I use most. The machine in question is old. Has a dual core 2.2ghz Athlon, 3GB DDR, XP SP3, GeForce graphics, sata HDD, standard ASUS motherboard, pretty much all standard for 2006.

I want to use my Magellan Maestro 3200 with Inssider. The Metageek forums aren't much help in the way of listing which devices are and are not compatible. They have a short list, but doesn't say anything about Magellan. If someone else has already used Inssider with a Maestro 3200 and can tell me the proper baud rate and bit data, etc., it would be cool if you could pass that information along. If someone knows where to get that info, I could use it, and thanks.

As soon as I am able to reclaim my lost space, I am going to have another go at Ubuntu, but only if someone will volunteer to be my Linux sherpa. Takers?

That's great to know for future reference, but right now what I really need is a partition manager, since I already made a new MBR, and lost a good percentage of my drive space to a rogue partition. I am familiar with some old standby tools, but I've sworn off proprietary software, I'm exclusively using open source software unless a solution does not exist. Still in need of a good partition manager.

So, what's the best partition manager software?

I would have loved to be able to run fixmbr and fixboot, but I don't posses a bootable XP cd, and I haven't touched a 3.5 inch disk or 3.5 inch drive in probably a decade. Those commands would likely have fixed the error. It's a shame I had to go through so much work and hassle just because a bootable XP image does not seem to exist anywhere on the freaking internet. It would be great if someone had that file for me.

After I initially installed Ubuntu and GRUB, XP showed up as bootable OS, it just wouldn't actually boot. The first time I chose XP as the OS I wanted to boot in GRUB, I got a black screen with blinking cursor, and I even let it sit for 15 minutes just to be sure. I had some suspicion that the boot record had been corrupted, but I also had some suspicion that the partition had been corrupted/partially over written (as per the output of sudo fdisk -l). I already had a backup drive with 99.5% of my important files, so that wasn't a problem. Now I have the strange problem of having missing hard drive space, which I can only assume means that there is a partition that windows does not see. I now need to figure out the best method for restoring all of that 60 or 70 GB of space that is lost. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately something has happened to the GRUB now, and I am not able to even boot into Ubuntu. I don't have an XP disk, haven't had one in years, and it seems very difficult if not near impossible to find an XP boot image, something I havent tried to do in many years. I did happen to have a very old DOS boot CD, so I thought if nothing else I can look at partitions, and sure enough windows boot partition was overwritten. Not sure what I should do now, since I have just done a clean install of Windows a few weeks ago, and spent a lot of time replacing everything. So, whats the best way to recover a partition, and without a factory XP disk? Sort of lost here, haven't had to do anything like this in , say, probably ten years.

Sorry for the rapid posting (I'm not a forum junkie, don't know if that's one of those things people consider to be rude). Anyway, I've just found this page on the ubuntuforums. This seems to be the fix for my problem, but since I'm new to ubuntu, and this guys English doesn't seem to be very good, I don't quite understand his instructions. Maybe someone could read this post and give me some better instructions? I don't actually know that this will work for me but it really seems like it describes the right problem and solution. It's post #2. ubuntuforums

I have been doing some reading, and it appears that the menu.lst does not exist with GRUB 2. So I must be using GRUB 2.

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xcab10bee Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 20021 160811560 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 23172 24321 9230760 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 20021 23172 25314305 5 Extended /dev/sda5 20021 22789 22237184 83 Linux /dev/sda6 22789 23172 3076096 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order As far as menu.lst, I assume you mean that I should find some text inside the grub.cfg file relating to or near "menu.lst", however, I have looked and searched through grub.cfg. and there is no such text "menu.lst" within grub.cfg. I could post the entire grub.cfg file, but it's several pages long.

I've recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 onto a single HDD machine that previously only ran XP. After installing Ubuntu, and using it exclusively for a few days, I tried to boot XP, and GRUB runs properly, and Ubuntu still boots normally, but when I tell GRUB to boot XP, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor and nothing else. I've never used GRUB before, and only tried Ubuntu for limited runs from live CD (never really had the time to take it any further). I issued sudo fdisk -l and learned that "partition table entries are not in disk order", and also that "partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary". I'm not sure what these mean. I could really use some guidance. My goal is to get XP booting normally again, while keeping my working Ubuntu partition. EDIT - I also forgot to mention that in the root of my hdd there is a BOOT.INI file, but there is also a BOOT.BAK file. I didn't create this boot.bak file, and I don't know what it's for or why it's there.

It's going to be pretty difficult to meet all those criteria, though I think it's worth a try to look at CherryPal. I recently heard about a company that makes a replacement screen for the Samsung N130 & Lenovo S10-2 netbooks, which operates in both normal TFT LCD mode, and also in color e-ink mode, which would solve your problem of not being able to see your screen in direct sunlight while still meeting your battery life requirement (something which, given your other hardware and price requirements, is nearly impossible otherwise). Pixel Qi Display That screen will run you $275 though. I'm pretty sure you will have to make a couple concessions, mostly on price in the event that you absolutely must have all of your desired equipment/hardware. Point being, I don't think you will ever find what you want for the price you want to pay, and almost certainly not unless you look into used or refurbished equipment.

It really seems like at least some level of connection was made so the theory that I need to open more ports seems to hold up in my opinion. I'm going to try opening some other ports as per Microsoft documents and then just use neighbors wifi to test. I have FTTU Fiber to the User internet, so I don't have a modem in here, my internet comes down a CAT-V from the enumerator outside, and the host machine in question is in another room, kinda a pain in the ass to move it, and I don't have a wired data network in the house. I thought about trying to use the machine that is wired to the router as the host in order to perform your test, but it will not serve as an RDP host because of it's OS version. I was just outside looking at the FTTU enumerator, and when i opened it up I noticed that it has a DE-9 VGA port on it. There are also lights for various functions like data, POST, and a few other including one that says VGA which, I assume, is the graphics connection established indicator light. I'm not familiar enough with fiber optics and wide area networks in general to know if there is anything cool i could do with all of those connections and plugs and lights. If i had seen something like that 15 years ago I would probably have ruined it beyond repair trying to figure out how it works.

I used the settings save file that I had created earlier that included instructions for showing desktop wallpaper, but with most of the other fancy settings turned off. I didn't even get the task bar, no buttons, nothing from the remote desktop, just a black screen. I tried again from my local network when I got home and it worked as expected. Oh, i should mention that the RDP session never got to the point of splash screen and entering user credentials. Don't know what that means though.

So last night I went to an outside network and initiated an RDP session. The connection was made, but I was unable to see the remote desktop, the local machines RDP window was just black. Anyone know what went wrong?

Ohhhh OK. I missed that part. I see how that could be useful for a shared machine, but the XP machine that I use most, and is the RDP host in question, is only used by me. I like the idea of having to approve that my local machine be allowed to serve an RDP connection. I didn't know that was the case , though. When I tested RDP locally, I was stil logged onto my user account on the XP RDP host, and I didn't have to approve or do anything on the host machine, Windows simply logged me off when I connected to it from another computer. Is that how it works with the standard built in RDP host software by default? If I did that update/patch, would it then mean that I would have to log out of Windows before I left the house in order to be able to connect to it from remote location?

The WIN7 Home Premium machine that I have is portable, and I don't keep any files or resources on it that I would need to access remotely, and there's the fact that it's usually inside of a case inside of a backpack. I would actually like to be able to use that machine as an RDP host just because I think I should be able to if I want. I don't know why MS thinks anyone will spend over a hundred dollars to upgrade their OS just so they can use a feature that can be replaced by something that is free and more secure. Maybe in the future, when the computer becomes less and less useful as a portable platform, I will want to use it for remote hosting. Until then, there is just no way I would spend all that money to upgrade to a professional version of Windows, so maybe this article will turn out to be useful. Can anyone tell me how this technique works? I mean, is it a custom file patch or what?