Windows

Tools to recover Windows CHK-files

This post links to two Windows programs that can help you determine the extension of CHK-files. A CHK-file is a file that is created when you run a disk repair tool like chkdsk, scandisk or other Windows disk tools. Often these CHK-files are placed in a FOUND.000 folder and contains several FILE0001.CHK FILE0002.CHK … files […]

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Misc

IP address change notifier script

This is a simple bash script that is run by crontab every 5 minutes on a linux box. It e-mails me the new address when a change of IP address is detected. The script (ipchangemail.sh) #!/bin/bash # Check if IP-address has changed. If a change has occured, mail me the new address # Add the […]

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Linux

Mount a RAID Reconstructor disk image in linux

This post came to life because I had gotten a image file of a 120GB linux ext2 RAID partition that I couldn’t access using Windows software. The partition had been rescued by RAID Reconstructor, a Windows software that can rebuild RAID arrays by combining the disks from the RAID and store it as one image […]

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Linux

Resize a VMWare virtual disk

This post describes how you can resize your VMWare disk in linux using the vmware-vdiskmanager tool, a offline disk manipulation utility. I’ve been using VMWare Workstation version 6.5 on a Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex linux installation. Shrink a disk image vmware-vdiskmanager -k diskname.vmdk Expand the disk to the specified capacity vmware-vdiskmanager -x <new-capacity> diskimage.vmdk Example […]

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Misc

Vmware Workstation 6.5 On Ubuntu 8.10 Modifiers Keys Not Working

This post describes a quick fix to enable arrow, delete, ins, end and other special keyboard keys in a VMWare Workstation 6.5 for linux like the norwegian/norske letters/bokstavene ÆØÅ. Solution #1 echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config This has been tested successfully on Windows hosts. Solution #2 Another solution is to paste the following code […]

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