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I had a Fedora core 5 installation with xp dual boot. many files were stored in the Linux. Later I reinstalled Fedora on the same machine by formatting the existing Linux partition. Is there any way to recover the old files in the previous Linux? It is very urgent…..Please help…..

I’m having a hard time getting my Debian distro “ELive” to connect to the internet.

I have a Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0). I’ve downloaded Linux drivers from Realtek for the Ethernet card, but the biggest problem is that ELIVE DENIES me permission to install them.

I can’t use my root password, because it doesn’t fucking ask me for it. How do I open a file with “super user” access without going to the terminal? I want to do this from file manager.

Anyone knowledgeable in Debian distros, their help would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you.
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I installed Mandriva Linux on one partition, and then installed a Windows XP on another. Then I tinkered with Partition Magic, as I wanted to install Mac OS X86 on another partition. I accidently chose the Linux partition as the default boot partition (which apparently, the Master Boot Record is broken after I installed Windows).

So now, the Linux won’t boot, keep giving me error messege. And I don’t know how to boot to my Windows partition. Any help?

I had windows xp and linux(mandriva). But i got my primary partition formatted as it got badly affected by viruses, trojans, spams……. however i did not install windows immediately, i used linux for a few days and thereafter i could not install xp. Though the i can boot from the xp cd, the process stops at initial step itself. I thought at first that my hard disk might have got developed some bad sectors, but after i consulted the service provider i got to that it is a software problem arised as i formatted primary partition and left it so with linux on my hard disk. Now i wish to format the whole hard disk deleting all the partitions including the linux partition. I tried it with partition magic but i ended up with unformatted linux boot partition using my friends healthy hard disk which has only xp.
Now can anyone send a software/link/solution which can completely format deleting all the partitions of a harddisk without affecting the data in the second harddisk?

i recently copied a certain file to the desktop of opensuse 10.3.I was logged in as root.Then after a botched up installation my computer doesnt boot into opensuse.i want to know where the folder is located to copy it to win xp. im currently using win xp with explore2fs-1.07.i can see the files in the linux partition,but can anyone tell me were exactly the desktop files for the “root” user are located.i would really appreciate it if somebody coul help me out