Fujitsu Emergency Restore

Jun 23, 2008

- Glad to help. It's theoretically possible to erase a disk with raw machine instructions, with the help of adaptors and circuits, some ibm and lenovo laptops build in these functions in their bios. But using a proper OS makes things much easier and safer. Downloading and burning a Ubuntu disk image does nothing to your current OS, however once a computer boots from the Ubuntu disk it can write to harddisk and change files and directories. That's why it is helpful in your condition. That's also why you should handle it with care. However the Ubuntu system is designed for human use, you will understand and control before anything happens.
An alternative way is dismantle the harddrive from the notebook and put it in a usb enclosure which in turn could be connect to your main computer for further operations. It's not that diffcult and a more straight forward way for some people. So you decide.

Jun 23, 2008

- Glad to help. It's theoretically possible to erase a disk with raw machine instructions, with the help of adaptors and circuits, some ibm and lenovo laptops build in these functions in their bios. But using a proper OS makes things much easier and safer. Downloading and burning a Ubuntu disk image does nothing to your current OS, however once a computer boots from the Ubuntu disk it can write to harddisk and change files and directories. That's why it is helpful in your condition. That's also why you should handle it with care. However the Ubuntu system is designed for human use, you will understand and control before anything happens.
An alternative way is dismantle the harddrive from the notebook and put it in a usb enclosure which in turn could be connect to your main computer for further operations. It's not that diffcult and a more straight forward way for some people. So you decide.

Jun 24, 2008

- Ah. In that case may be this boot cd (and similar ones, in fact there are quite many on the web) could help (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), I didn't try myself but it seems small and simple, on the other hand maybe we don't have the luxury of graphical user interface this time. Still the site offered many links that might be help. Try and hope the best...