Ultimate Edition Forum

Hello,
I have killed my laptop hard drive and I think it's because I failed to change the settings of Hard drive cycles or switch-offs. Since then I have installed a new hard drive but I want to ensure that I don't make the same mistake.

Can anyone help me with changing this setting?

I also don't seem to have a root login. The original install did not ask for a root password so I believe my one username is all I have on my system. Not sure if that makes me (root) as well.

soundchaser wrote:Hello,
I have killed my laptop hard drive and I think it's because I failed to change the settings of Hard drive cycles or switch-offs. Since then I have installed a new hard drive but I want to ensure that I don't make the same mistake.

Can anyone help me with changing this setting?

I also don't seem to have a root login. The original install did not ask for a root password so I believe my one username is all I have on my system. Not sure if that makes me (root) as well.

Hello soundchaser,
I am not sure I understand your statement about "setting of the Hard drive cycles or switch-offs", unless you're speaking of the settings effecting Sleep or Power-Down of your hard drive in your system's BIOS.

As to your confusion over the Root user - your may only have specified a single user and password when installing Ultimate Edition, but you can always issue commands as Root, just give you own PW when asked for the Root PW. If you are in a terminal, the precede any commands needing "Root Privelidges" with sudo, ie...: sudo apt-get update to update the Repositories... sudo is telling the system to run the command or application as Root...
Take a look at the following screenshot to see an example of the use of sudo in a terminal, trying toi make a directory inside a directory owned by ROOT...



Note the Terminal window in the lower right corner. You will notice that I changed directory to the Root /, the tried to create a directory in /media/ and the system responded that permission was denied, so I re-entered the command with sudo preceding the command, pressed enter, and was prompted for the [sudo] password for texasmike:, to which I gave my own login password which allowed me to create the directory.




(03/09/2010@0840: Edited for typos... TexasMike)

Thanks Blackwolf!
I try...
Hows things down under? Did I hear something about severe weather in your part of the world? I heard something in the past couple of days about Australia and it made me think of you and your countrymen. Just can't remember what it was... I think it was Melbourn (spelling?) and some flooding...??
Anyway, hope it did not cause you any problems...