The command ifconfig -a will tell you all of your interface devices, even if they are powered down.

I am home right now, and don't have the drive with me. I will give it a shot later, and post results. Thanks for the tips!

There is no mechanical errors, it is entirely software issue. The problem is that the partition location is in the wrong position. I don't need to undelete the partition, I need to edit the...

It isn't too important, just convient to have. Since testdisk was complaining about disk size, I went ahead and made a copy of the 80GB drive onto an empty 200GB drive I had laying around. So if...

A crap JMicron USB controller messed up my backup drive, and I can't recover it with testdisk. It was an 80GB NTFS partition on an 80GB drive, but testdisk cannot recover it - it appears to be a...

I doubt it, I knocked out HDDs while working on them plenty of times and none of them are dead.

If your using Windows, reboot so that it can see the drive again, and if that doesn't work, load up...

What hardware are you running this on?

You can't boot from the expresscard, you have to have the bootloader on your hard drive.

If the password is half way decent, cracking a file like this is going to take forever. Directions are in post #2.

I think Xmonad would be perfect for the next BT. It really eliminates struggling with arranging windows, and helps to get stuff done so much faster.

When I install BT, I switch out LILO for GRUB. The easiest way of doing it is creating a /boot and /boot/grub directory, placing the GRUB stage files in the grub directory. You can get the GRUB...

I was search google for information on a laptop - a compaq CQ50-139WM, which is on sale at Walmart stores for $298 tommorow. What was wierd that a lot of the top search results had this in the...

GPGPU isn't new. The only reason this works so well is because GPUs are really honed to calculate vectors for graphics, which makes them extremely effective at working against encryption.

You need to know what kind of wireless card you have. Open up a console, and type in



lspci | grep Wireless


The output will tell you what you have. I have a T400 with an Atheros...

After filling up hdc1 did you clear the unused files? Also, in the config file did you omit the initrd? The seperate initrd is the live version, and won't work with a hard drive install. Leaving...

Did you try checking out the readme? The drivers could have a special configuration step you skipped.

Unless you computer is really old it should be able to boot from a USB device. Check the BIOS for boot order, and try hitting F9 and F12 on boot, those usually bring up the boot selection menu.

Is there the wrong partition mounted? Check to make sure that it is installing to sda3, and don't forget to make a filesystem on sda1.

You can, check out this link:
http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=14751

You'll need about 4GB of space for the installation. It isn't a live install, so all changes are saved, and...

Alright, thanks. I get rid of the changes, since I don't have the live install, I have a full install with the changes argument.

I found out the problem - it was the initrd. Taking it out solved...

Its probably needs more than just the kernel.lzm, post the full error output.

Expanded, BT3 is about 3.4GB. You might not have enough free space on your drive.

I just followed these steps, but I can't boot into BT3. I installed it on my HDD as sda10, with changes as...

You may not have a wireless card supported by BT3 out of the box, so you will need to identify what chipset it is based off of. Using the terminal, enter:



lspci | grep Wireless


A few...

What files are you supposed to edit? What have you tried, and how much success have you had?

You need to grab the kernel sources lzm:
w w w.offensive-security.com/kernel.lzm

Once you finish downloading it, cd to it and use the command to extract the sources to the right directories. ...