supereater14 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 HELP! A little over a month ago i was doing the zipit hack. It was successful. However, I accidentally typed in sda1 instead of sdb1 and killed a computer. Thankfully, that was my backup computer that I only use for things like this. I finished the process using my mac. I would like to get my secondary computer working because it's backup has either a fried bios or a fried graphics card (I can't tell which.) the computer has had some hardware failures that mean that it cannot accept cds or floppys (the drives just whirr and stop and buzz), the bios does not support booting from usb and the bootloader is unusable.PLEASE HELP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Remove the HDD, install from another machine, place back in broken pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 i can't get an ide connector for 2.5" hard drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 to be more clear: I cannot afford a connector for it (it's a 2.5" ide hard drive). I only have a mac (my pc is the one with the hosed bios/graphics card) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 They cost about £3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 here're some pics (under that thing on the hard drive is an ide connector) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 i still cannot afford one right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Does the device support network booting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 i believe so. it would have to be wired as there is no on-board wifi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seph Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Man thats one hell of a pickle you're in =\ Network boot looks like your only option, and if you can't -- well I guess that means your stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 You cannot PXE boot over wireless, it has to be cabled. Go into your bios and see if you have that option, if not you will need to spend the £3 for the widget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Spend the £3. So many of my friends laptops have been rescused with such a device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 i think i'll go with booting over a network. can someone tell me how to do it from a mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot Probably best setting up a VM to do this. Remember that there needs to be only one DHCP server available when you turn the laptop on, so you'll either have to disable the DHCP server on your router or unplug the router when you turn the laptop on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Couldnt you just go crossover pc to pc for pxe or whatever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Couldnt you just go crossover pc to pc for pxe or whatever? You could Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 i think i'll go with the ide to usb after all. i have decided to install it on a virtual machine and then write the disk image to the hard drive directly. this begs the question, how do i write a .vdi image to a usb disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 all right, the ide/usb thing kinda fell through. so i'm back to square 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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