Recovering data from a damaged FAT32 hard disk drive

I just want to wrap up how I managed to recover the data from a laptop’s damaged hard disk drive. The 40GB disk was formatted with FAT32, had a Windows XP and some serious I/O error problems preventing it from booting. I cleaned up my external 80 GB HDD, plugged it via USB into the [...]

Fixing problems with Exim4 and ClamAV after apt-get upgrade

So this was one of the weeks where I learned Linux configuration the hard way. I simply thought of getting my virtual server up to the most recent version. It was/is running a Debian 3.1 (Sarge), I guess. You’ll probably realize by now that I know a lot about my server… Anyway, I simply ran [...]