Deleting files or quickly formatting a drive isn’t enough for sensitive personal information. We’ll show you how to get rid of it for good using a Ubuntu Live CD. When you delete a file in Windows, Ubuntu, or any other operating system, it doesn’t actually destroy the data stored on your hard drive, it just marks that data as “deleted.” If you overwrite it later, then that data is generally unrecoverable, but if the...

Accidentally deleting a file is a terrible feeling. Not being able to boot into Windows and undelete that file makes that even worse. Fortunately, you can recover deleted files on NTFS hard drives from an Ubuntu Live CD. To show this process, we created four files on the desktop of a Windows XP machine, and then deleted them. We then booted up the same machine with the bootable Ubuntu 9.10 USB Flash Drive that we created last...

I have been really looking forward to writing up this post and I know I promised it a few times. But with all three members of my family suffering flu this past week, I just haven’t had a chance. Many of you have read the Getting To Know Ubuntu article and contacted me saying what you like about it. There was also an article written on how to use ISO image files called – How To Burn And Work With An ISO File Using ...

Its not your fault! You’ve grown up on Windows. Its your parents fault! They didn’t teach you the rights and wrongs in the OS world…. OK Maybe that’s silly. However, we have mostly been conditioned in to using Windows for everything and we get a little stuck there. You know, M$ Windows had the whole touch screen phone thing down a long time before iPhones and Androids.. The latter came along a shook M$ up...