k3b bermasalah?

Hajat di hati nak layan movie malam ni kat TV ngan keluarga. Sebelum tu kena burn cerita tu dulu ke dalam DVD R/W. Macam biasa, aku convert movie tu guna program DeVeDe, 40 minit lebih pastu siap.

Kemudian, cuba burn guna k3b..., macam biasa masukkan DVD R/W yang biasa aku gunakan untuk burn cerita. Tak boleh... cuba sekali lagi, tak boleh jugak, ada error. Apa hal pulak ni? Ada masalah dengan DVD R/W ni kot...

Takpe, aku gunakan pulak DVD +R, takpelah.. sekeping je guna, masa yang diluangkan dengan keluarga lebih berharga daripada harga DVD ni sekeping. Eh, takleh gak.... Aku cuba sekeping lagi DVD +R, takleh gak. Dah, aku fed-up... Last2 aku tengok cite tu kat monitor komputer ni je, ceh...

Keesokan harinya, login ke Windows 7, cuba burn fail iso yang sama menggunakan program ImgBurn. Boleh pulak... Apa kes ni, dah sah... bukan masalah DVD writer ni. Ni mesti berpunca dari program k3b dalam Linux Mint tu sendiri.

Nanti2 nak cuba burn guna Brasero lak, kalau takleh gak, memang Mint ni yang ada masalah. Takpe, tunggu dan lihat hasilnya nanti.

Pasang Ubuntu 11.04

Aku tak sabar nak pasang Ubuntu 11.04, nak tengok camana penggunaan Unity di samping Gnome 3. Balik rumah, sembahyang dulu... teruskan usaha nak transfer fail iso tu ke PC, sebelum burn ke CD.

Tak tahu apa yang berlaku, rasanya sebelum ni ok je. Aku tak dapat nak transfer fail Ubuntu 11.04 yang baru aku muat turun, dari telefon SE C510a ke PC, melalui USB. Melalui Windows 7 takleh, melalui Mint takleh, melalui Ubuntu pun takleh...

Padahal tadi elok jer aku transfer masuk ke telefon ni guna PC lain, ok jer.... Maknanya bukan telefon Sony Ericsson ni yang bermasalah, ada sesuatu yang tak kena dengan PC ni lah ni.

Sudahnya, terpaksalah aku transfer melalui bluetooth. Sejam setengah tu.... Boleh tido dulu nih. Dibiarkan lama sikit, dekatkan lagi phone dengan Bluetooth Dongle, haa... cepatlah sikit transfer rate, 170 kb/s.

My Linux Mint and Windows7 got problem

I'm not sure where the problem came from but recently I'm having problem in using both of my Mint and Windows7. I can't also access my 3rd Hard drive, 1 TB which contain my backup copies of all the important files.

In Mint, the processor seems busy handling something from the moment I logged on to Windows until now, it's been 10 minutes ! I suspected the problem is coming from my 3rd HDD.

I'm scheduling a backup using rsync everyday, my Mint will automatically backup the important folders set from Home to HDD2 and HDD3. Not sure what is wrong, the loading time now is more than the normal.

If I unplugged the HDD3, everything seems okay....

Can't boot into Windows7 after deleted primary partition.

Recently, I installed another OS (Linux Mint). Before installing this Mint, I deleted primary partition (sda1) and created entended partition from the earlier primary partition sda1. Since that, I cannot boot into my Windows7 anymore (received error message something like "no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key"), but I've no problem in booting into both Linux Ubuntu and Mint.

I've tried a few things, but seems like the luck is not with me. Below are the things that I've tried:

1. Boot Recovery Disc Windows7 and done the Repair Startup many times (more than 5 times), still no luck.

2. Boot Recovery Disc Windows7 and chose Command Prompt to use:
Bootrec /scanos - The Windows is listed.
Bootrec /fixboot - No element found,
Bootrec /fixmbr - Completed succesfully.

3. Boot Recovery Disc Windows7 and chose Command Prompt to use Diskpart, everything seems okay for the list disk, select disk, list partiton, select partion, except the "active" command. I've been prompted with something like "Virtual Disk Service Error: the specified partition type is not valid for this operation".

I've installed back grub for me to log in into Linux Ubuntu/Mint. From Linux Gparted, I can see this windows partition is flagged as boot.

Here is the solution:

Using Gparted I can't create primary partition from the unallocated partition inside extended partition. I can only created another primary partition by shrunk my sda4 partition (last partition in Gparted) and use the 'just unallocated partition' as the primary partition for the 200 MB partition required.


1. Use Gparted to make an ntfs primary partition. Mark it Active (right click and Flag On)
2. Boot 7 dvd go to command prompt, type diskpart, lis vol, select the new primary with sel vol, ass ( to assign next available drive letter). Exi ( to leave diskpart).
3. bcdboot <7volumeletter>:\windows /s :
4. bootsect /nt60 : /mbr

Yeah at last, I managed to boot into windows7. I also reinstalled Grub, using Linux Mint Live-CD. Everything seems okay just that I can't see Windows bootloader upon start although I can see it is listed when I've done the 'sudo update-grub'. I edited file 'grub.cfg' manually, changed the (hd0,1) to (hd0,7) in Windows7 menuentry (my Windows installation is in sda7). I then run again 'sudo update-grub' and restart, this time Windows bootloader really listed in Linux Mint's grub. Hooray !!

I posted this problem in sevenforums.com.