Serious Issue

[Nod]

The hard drive on my Net Book has failed. There was a TON of bad sectors that appeared after I partitioned the drive to install Ubuntu. I don't know if I fucked that part up and caused it or not but I'm moving on. I can't really take it back to get the hard drive replaced right now so I'm booting the live disk version of Ubuntu from a usb drive. I'd like to install Ubuntu on this drive though so that I can actually save my settings, files and everything. It's already partitioned with 25 gigs, cut off from the rest of the 232.88 gig drive, which is where the live version of Ubuntu is running from. The rest is free space. However, the drive doesn't appear in the install at all for me to even try and install it to the free space. Can anyone help?

[rbcp]

You should get hirens boot CD, which is available on bittorrent.  It's got lots of disk utilities that might be able to help you with the bad sectors.  It can change your partitions around too.  Hirens has saved me several times now.  I've even recovered data off of a fucked up drive with it.

[Nod]

It doesn't even recognize the drive is there anymore and even if it did everything I've read so far says there is no software fix for this problem.

My strategy for now is to find a live version of Ubuntu that has the at least most of the programs and codecs and stuff that I need installed already.

[rbcp]

Hirens is magical.  It might be able to find your drive and repair it.  I've recovered drives that Windows couldn't see before.

[Nod]

I'll have to look and see if I can make a USB "Bootdisk" with it.

[ApprenticePhreak]

I'll have to look and see if I can make a USB "Bootdisk" with it.

You can make a USB bootdisk with it. It's not bad at all. But I recommend using Hiren's Boot Disc 9.7 over all the others. 9.8 half the utilities were ravaged and wouldn't load. Not to mention 9.7 was when he was using all the 'borrowed' software companies charged bookoo bucks for. Not to mention it has Symantic Ghost on it. It's very nice in truth.

[Nod]

I actually don't mind booting exclusively into Ubuntu. The problem is that it doesn't save my settings/installed software so every time I reboot I have to start all over again.

[ApprenticePhreak]

Which is why you use Hiren's Boot disc. It has every hard drive manufacturer's repair tools on there. Samsung, Hitachi, Seagate, et cetera. But if you're using a Hitachi drive, you're fucked regardless and there's no helping you. Ever. Hitachi drives can go click off in a corner some where.

But yeah. It'll repair the sectors if and when repairable. So fuck all that non-sense data you had saved on there. It's worthless now and the cops can't reach it if you can't! Legally you're in the free!

[Nod]

I wiped the drive and installed Ubuntu on it but I still need to fix the drive itself. I only have one USB drive to boot from though so I needed a base from which to install Hiron's. How do I go about doing that from Ubuntu? All the instructions/install stuff I can find is for Windows.

[ApprenticePhreak]

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Short and sweet. Only because I'm too tired to really focus or type anything that won't make me question my literacy skills come morning.

[Nod]

Tried it and it wouldn't boot. I guess I'm just going to have to use the upstairs computer (WINDOWS) to install it as when I tried to boot from it all I got was a flashing underscore. It didn't appear to be a cursor though as nothing happened when I tried to type.