When you work with several disks is easy to get confused and to delete a partition that you don't really want. First advice: DO NOT PANIC! In fact STOP doing anything! Try to figure out what went wrong, what you…
Windows convert dynamic to basic disk
I have a Win2K3 VM hosted by a KVM hypervisor. In the Linux host I have 2 Linux partitions type ID=83 (eg: /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5) that I've allocated to the Win2K3 VM as virtual disks. The Windows guest took care…
Resize KVM virtual disk
It's happening that I have a Win2K3 kvm VM hosted on a Linux host. On Linux I have installed two disks and on each of these disks I've created many partitions. Two of these partitions serve like "physical disks" to…
Oops, I did it again!
Those who are playing with fire sometimes they just get burned. I was trying to create a backup for one of my HDD partition, some kind of partition-to-partition backup. After playing a while with dd and experimenting different CLI options…
Upgrade laptop CPU
Do you ever wanted to upgrade laptop CPU but you was not sure if it's possible or didn't know how to do it? So was I. I will tell you my story... I had a HP Compaq 6820s laptop. Yes,…