Troubleshooting Computers Freezes / Lackups

How familiar does the following sound? Your computer was working fine, but then suddenly started locking up (aka hanging or freezing), rebooting itself (crashing) or shutting down spontaneously? If you know only too well what I am talking about, then read on! Performing the simple steps below can fix the majority of lockup cases.

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How to backing up using Linux OS

This is a guide on how to do backups from inaccessible harddrives and partitions.
Before you continue I want you to know that this is not 100% guaranteed to work.
But from experience I can tell you it works in 80% of the cases I have come across.

You will need the following.
A bootable linux cd/dvd.
A 2nd harddrive or external harddrive/usb memory.

I recommend Knoppix due to it being so user-friendly.

I will continue with the guide step by step so that everyone will understand it as easy as possible.

Step One.
Insert the Linux cd/dvd in your cd/dvd rom and reboot your system so that you are prompted to boot to the cd/dvd.
Hit enter as instructed and the boot process will commence.
The boot process can take 2-10 minutes depending on your system and the read speed of your cd/dvd rom.

Step Two.
When you first enter you will have a welcome window pop up, Just close it, It will be in the way for what we’re gonna do.
You should have the desktop right in front of you, Not very different from Windows when you think about it.
Instead of "Start" (Windows XP) or the Crystal Ball (Windows Vista) you have a K.

Now depending on your system setup you should see your harddrive or your partitions on the desktop.
However they aren’t known as C, D, E etc as they are in windows.
Instead they are named as hda1, hda2, sda1 and so on.

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