Invalid system disk

I
bought a used toshiba satillite a10-s127, with no hard drive or operating system. I bought
a hard drive, and I want to install Ubuntu on it. but when it boots all I get is a message that says Invalid system disk. I can get to bios but that is all. Any suggestion?

Assuming that you bought a compatible hard drive and that it is jumpered as Master (cable select drives do not work), then it sounds like the system is trying to boot from the hard drive rather than the CD. It is also possible the the system doesn't have the capability of booting from CD, in which case you would have to boot from a floppy with CD drivers and install from there.

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お世話になっております。
日本ナショナルインスツルメンツ、湯田と申します。
Leorge様
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At the hardware level I slip the storage into 6 parts containing 7
1TB disks and had the parts configured into 6 RAID 6 arrays. In the end; each of the 6 arrays gives me 4.6TB of usable storage space.
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INS-30508 Invalid ASM disks on 11.2.0.3 OL 6.2 grid standalone install

New set of Dell servers R710s running OL 6.2 redhat compatible kernel
$ uname -a
Linux seoltpo-02 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
Connected to EMC VNX5500 and using powerpath 5.6.0. Not a rac environment ... doing 11.2.0.3 base install of grid infrastructure for a standalone server.
Not using ASMLIB.
Disk permissions are correct as grid install begins ...
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 704 Jul 26 21:18 emcpoweras
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 720 Jul 26 21:18 emcpowerat
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 736 Jul 26 21:18 emcpowerau
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 752 Jul 26 21:18 emcpowerav
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 768 Jul 26 21:18 emcpoweraw
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 784 Jul 26 21:18 emcpowerax
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 800 Jul 26 21:18 emcpoweray
brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 816 Jul 26 21:18 emcpoweraz
GUI installer sees the powerpath LUNs after changing the Disk Discovery path ... for example ....
INFO: ... discoveryString = /dev/emcpower*
INFO: Executing [tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/kfod, nohdr=true, verbose=true, disks=all, status=true, op=disks, asm_diskstring='/dev/emcpower*']
with environment variables {XFILESEARCHPATH=/usr/dt/app-defaults/%L/Dt, LANG=en_US.UTF-8, DISPLAY=191.4.0.79:0, PWD=/u01/software_install/11_2_base/grid, _=/u01/software_install/11_2_base/grid/install/.oui, NLSPATH=/usr/dt/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat, USER=grid, QTINC=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include, CLASSPATH=, G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1, HOME=/home/grid, HOSTNAME=waoltpo-02, MODULESHOME=/usr/share/Modules, LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s, LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/../lib, ORACLE_HOME=/tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin, LOGNAME=grid, SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass, SHELL=/bin/bash, CVS_RSH=ssh, SHLVL=2, HISTCONTROL=ignoredups, KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1, MAIL=/var/spool/mail/grid, QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3, JAVA_HOME=, QTLIB=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib, MODULEPATH=/usr/share/Modules/modulefiles:/etc/modulefiles, LS_COLORS=, LC_ALL=, KDEDIRS=/usr, HISTSIZE=1000, module=() { eval `/usr/bin/modulecmd bash $*`
}, LOADEDMODULES=, TERM=vt220, PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin:/etc/opt/emcpower/bin:/home/grid/bin:/u01/software_install/11_2_base/grid/install}
INFO: Starting Output Reader Threads for process /tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/kfod
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpoweras grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpowerat grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpowerau grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpowerav grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpoweraw grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpowerax grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpoweray grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpoweraz grid oinstall
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpoweru
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpoweru"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
*** Of course there are other LUNs not going to be part of ASM disk groups so it cannot read all of them initially.
Somehow after first looking at the disks and seeing them the first time the permissions are changed back on the disks over to root:root as soon as the GUI sees the disks.
You select the disks that you want in the GUI ( but the permissions have been changed already ) so click Next and wham INS 30508 ...
The Install log shows that kfod is apparently scanning the disks a bunch of time ... but before the error appears install log sees that permissions have changed.
Somehow actions caused from running the GUI are changing the permissions? Something is wrong somewhere ... powerpath ? 11.2.0.3 on this kernel version ? Seems very bizarre ...
NFO: Executing [tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/kfod, nohdr=true, verbose=true, disks=all, status=true, op=disks, asm_diskstring='/dev/emcpoweras','/dev/emcpowerat','/dev/emcpowerau','/dev/emcpowerav','/dev/emcpoweraw','/dev/emcpowerax','/dev/emcpoweray','/dev/emcpoweraz']
with environment variables {XFILESEARCHPATH=/usr/dt/app-defaults/%L/Dt, LANG=en_US.UTF-8, DISPLAY=191.4.0.79:0, PWD=/u01/software_install/11_2_base/grid, _=/u01/software_install/11_2_base/grid/install/.oui, NLSPATH=/usr/dt/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat, USER=grid, QTINC=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include, CLASSPATH=, G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1, HOME=/home/grid, HOSTNAME=waoltpo-02, MODULESHOME=/usr/share/Modules, LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s, LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/../lib, ORACLE_HOME=/tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin, LOGNAME=grid, SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass, SHELL=/bin/bash, CVS_RSH=ssh, SHLVL=2, HISTCONTROL=ignoredups, KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1, MAIL=/var/spool/mail/grid, QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3, JAVA_HOME=, QTLIB=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib, MODULEPATH=/usr/share/Modules/modulefiles:/etc/modulefiles, LS_COLORS=, LC_ALL=, KDEDIRS=/usr, HISTSIZE=1000, module=() { eval `/usr/bin/modulecmd bash $*`
}, LOADEDMODULES=, TERM=vt220, PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin:/etc/opt/emcpower/bin:/home/grid/bin:/u01/software_install/11_2_base/grid/install}
INFO: Starting Output Reader Threads for process /tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/kfod
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpoweraz
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpoweraz"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: The process /tmp/OraInstall2012-07-28_03-19-37AM/ext/bin/kfod exited with code 0
INFO: Waiting for output processor threads to exit.
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpoweray
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpoweray"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpowerax
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpowerax"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpoweraw
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpoweraw"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpowerav
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpowerav"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpowerau
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpowerau"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpowerat
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpowerat"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Parsing KFOD-00311: Error scanning device /dev/emcpoweras
INFO: Parsing ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/emcpoweras"
INFO: Parsing Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
INFO: Output processor threads exited.
SEVERE: [FATAL] [INS-30508] Invalid ASM disks.
CAUSE: The disks [dev/emcpoweras, /dev/emcpowerat, /dev/emcpowerau, /dev/emcpowerav, /dev/emcpoweraw, /dev/emcpowerax, /dev/emcpoweray, /dev/emcpoweraz] were not valid.
ACTION: Please choose or enter valid ASM disks.
INFO: Advice is ABORT
INFO: Adding ExitStatus INVALID_USER_INPUT to the exit status set
INFO: Completed validating state <CreateASMDiskGroup>
INFO: Terminating all background operations
INFO: Terminated all background operations
INFO: Transition aborted
INFO: Rolled back to state <CreateASMDiskGroup>
Is there some kind of configuration steps I am missing somewhere?
Yeah I know probably going to have to open an SR here but some of you guys around here are pretty sharp. Can I attach the whole install log here somehow?

Well I am not exactly opposed to udev rules for the powerpath devices ... not that I know what that is exactly ... if this can fix my problem.
I found an example or two from google ...
It looks like on my OL 6.2 system there is a difference in the files ( rules I guess ) under /etc/udev/rules.d
# *** OL 5.7 system below
$ ls -ltr
total 232
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1088 Jun 6 2007 60-pcmcia.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58016 Jun 6 2007 60-libsane.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2319 Jul 14 2008 bluetooth.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Nov 5 2008 90-alsa.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1823 Nov 5 2008 85-pcscd_ccid.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 Dec 8 2010 60-raw.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Jan 13 2011 90-hal.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 Mar 25 2011 05-udev-pp.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292 May 11 2011 98-kexec.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Jun 7 2011 60-net.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 331 Jun 9 2011 90-ib.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 992 Jul 8 2011 40-multipath.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9366 Jul 22 2011 60-wacom.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 Jul 22 2011 95-pam-console.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Jul 22 2011 90-dm.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 471 Jul 22 2011 51-hotplug.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16732 Jul 22 2011 50-udev.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515 Jul 22 2011 05-udev-early.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175 Jul 22 2011 88-clock.rules
# *** OL 6.2 system below
$ ls -ltr
total 64
# *** OL 6.2 system below
$ ls -ltr
total 64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1914 Apr 27 2010 85-pcscd_ccid.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 320 Jul 2 2010 90-alsa.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1060 Jul 24 2010 60-pcmcia.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1652 Nov 20 2010 60-fprint-autosuspend.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2486 Dec 23 2010 97-bluetooth-serial.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Mar 7 2011 95-dataeng-udev.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 Mar 25 2011 05-udev-pp.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 706 Mar 29 2011 56-hpmud_support.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6858 Mar 29 2011 40-hplip.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 83 May 20 2011 90-hal.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 316 Oct 13 2011 60-raw.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 54 Dec 7 2011 99-fuse.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 292 Dec 7 2011 98-kexec.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 53 Dec 7 2011 91-drm-modeset.rules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 789 Jul 19 07:28 70-persistent-cd.rules
??? So no file 50-udev.rules ... in the 6.2 system ??? But tons of stuff in the 5.7 system ...

[FATAL] [INS-30508] Invalid ASM disks.

Dear Gurus
please help for troubleshoot the Invalid asm disk error on solaris
Oracle Grid 11.2.0.3.0
Solaris10 with EMC Powerpath Partition
-bash-3.2$ ./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /aaa/Oracle11g_SunSPARC_64bit/grid/response/grid_install.rsp
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 180 MB.   Actual 90571 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 90667 MB    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-09-15_12-17-47PM. Please wait ...-bash-3.2$ [FATAL] [INS-30508] Invalid ASM disks.
   CAUSE: The disks [/dev/rdsk/emcpower2a, /dev/rdsk/emcpower6a, /dev/rdsk/emcpower8a] were not valid.
   ACTION: Please choose or enter valid ASM disks.
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I'm grateful for your response and your time
We had resolve the issue our self
[/dev/rdsk/emcpower2a, /dev/rdsk/emcpower6a, /dev/rdsk/emcpower8a]
above partition by default take the slice 0
we had refer below link
ASM Create Partitions in Solaris and add them as disks in AS
In Sparc architecture, the solaris disk is subdivided into 8 slices.
Below is the common configuration of these eight slices:
slice 0: Holds files and directories that make up the operating
system.*
slice 1: Swap, Provides virtual memory, or swap space.
slice 2: Refers to the entire disk, by convention. The size of this
slice should not be changed.**
slice 3: /export, Holds alternative versions of the operating system.
slice 4: /export/swap. Provides virtual memory space for client
systems. ***
slice 5: /opt. Holds application software added to a system.
slice 6: /usr. Holds operating system commands--also known as
executables-- designed to be run by users.
slice 7: /home. Holds files created by users.
* Cannot be used as ASM disk. Using this slice causes disk corruption
and may render the disk as unusable.
** Should not be used as ASM Disk, as slice refers to the entire disk
(Including partition tables).
*** Is the recommended slice to be used for ASM disk.
as per asm recommendation we had used slice 4 the same
so we had detail diagnose and came to know that we have to use
[/dev/rdsk/emcpower2e, /dev/rdsk/emcpower6e, /dev/rdsk/emcpower8e]
here e refer the slice 4
we had use below changes in silent file and it's working fine
oracle.install.asm.diskGroup.disks=/dev/rdsk/emcpower2e,/dev/rdsk/emcpower6e,/dev/rdsk/emcpower8e
sample logs
INFO: Starting Output Reader Threads for process /tmp/OraInstall2013-09-17_05-03-21PM/ext/bin/kfod
INFO: Parsing 2560 CANDIDATE /dev/rdsk/emcpower2e oracle oinstall
INFO: The process /tmp/OraInstall2013-09-17_05-03-21PM/ext/bin/kfod exited with code 0
INFO: Waiting for output processor threads to exit.
INFO: Parsing 2560 CANDIDATE /dev/rdsk/emcpower6e oracle oinstall
INFO: Parsing 2560 CANDIDATE /dev/rdsk/emcpower8e oracle oinstall

System Image Restore Fails "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found"

Greetings
                                    - Our critical server image backup Fails on one
server -
Two 2008 R2 servers. Both do a nightly "Windows Server Backup" of Bare Metal Recovery, System State, C:, System Reserved partition, to another storage hard drive on the same machine as the source. Active Directory is on the C: The much larger D: data
partition on each source hard drive is not included.
Test recovery by disconnecting 500G System drive, booting from 2008R2 Install DVD, recovering to a new 500G SATA hard drive.
Server A good.
Server B fails. It finds the backed-up image, & then we can select the date we want. As soon as the image restore is beginning and the timeline appears, it bombs with "The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering the system
disk can be found." There is a wordy Details message but none of it seems relevant (we are not using USB etc).
At some point after this, in one (or two?) of the scenarios below, (I forget exactly where) we also got :
"The system image restore failed. (0x80042403)"
The destination drive is Not "Excluded".
Used   diskpart clean   to remove volumes from destination drive. Recovery still errored.
Tried a second restore-to drive, same make/model Seagate ST3500418AS, fails.
Tried the earliest dated B image rather than the most recent, fail.
The Server B backups show as "Success" each night.
Copied image from B to the same storage drive on A where the A backup image is kept, and used the A hardware to attempt restore. Now only the latest backup date is available (as would occur normally if we had originally saved the backup to a network location).
Restore still fails.         It looks like its to do with the image rather than with the hardware.
Tried unticking "automatically check and update disk error info", still fail.
Server A SRP 100MB C: 50.6GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385   write cache off
Server B SRP 100MB C: 102GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385   write cache off
Restore-to hard drive is also Seagate ST3500418AS.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/e855ee43-186d-4200-a032-23d214d3d524      Some people report success after diskpart clean, but not us.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/31595afd-396f-4084-b5fc-f80b6f40dbeb
"If your destination disk has a lower capacity than the source disk, you need to go into the disk manager and shrink each partition on the source disk before restoring." Doesnt apply here.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=4
for 0x80042403 says "The solution is really quite simple: the destination drive is of a lower capacity than the image's source drive." I cant see that here.
Thank you so much.

Hello,
1. While recovering the OS to the new Hard disk, please don't keep the original boot disk attached to the System. There is a Disk signature for each hard disk. The signature will collide if the original boot disk signature is assigned to the new disk.
You may attach the older disk after recovering the OS. If you want to recover data to the older disk then they should be attached as they were during backup.
2. Make sure that the new boot disk is attached as the First Boot disk in hardware (IDE/SATA port 0/master) and is the first disk in boot order priority.
3. In Windows Recovery Env (WinRE) check the Boot disk using: Cmd prompt -> Diskpart.exe -> Select Disk = System. This will show the disk where OS restore will be attempted. If the disk is different than the intended 2 TB disk then swap the disks in
correct order in the hardware.
4. Please make sure that the OS is always recovered to the System disk. (Due to an issue: BMR might recover the OS to some other disk if System disk is small in size. Here the OS won't boot. If you belive this is the case, then you should attach the
bigger sized disk as System disk and/or exclude other disks from recovery). Disk exclusion is provided in System Image Restore/Complete PC Restore UI/cmdline.
5. Make sure that Number and Size of disks during restore match the backup config. Apart from boot volumes, some other volumes are also considered critical if there are services/roles installed on them. These disks will be marked critical for recovery and
should be present with minimum size requirement.
6. Some other requirements are discussed in following newsgroup threads:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/871a0216-fbaf-4a0c-83aa-1e02ae90dbe4
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/9a082b90-bd7c-46f8-9eb3-9581f9d5efdd
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/11d8c552-a841-49ac-ab2e-445e6f95e704
Regards,
Vikas Ranjan [MSFT]
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Cannot delete Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx from an old system disk

Hi, I am running a Windows 8 64 bit system with the most current version of Flash installed, whatever that is, since I blindly accept whatever update Adobe sends to me. My problem is that I cannot delete the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file from an old system disk where I have deleted everything else in the Windows folder except the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file.
I have seen very similar posts by Krischu on November 27, 2013 "Cannot delete/remove Flash32_11_9_900_117.ocx" and by Gdstuart on January 22, 2014 "How to delete Flash32_11_9_900_170,ocx," and I have tried the "takeown" method and the FileASSASSIN method suggested by MikeM to both of those posts, but my Flash.ocx file just won't go away.
I am the only user of this PC, and my user account describes me as an administrator, but I keep getting the "You need to provide admistrator permission to delete this file" when I try to delete it.
Does anyone know how to delete this file without doing what Krischu did by loading a Ubuntu system?
Thanks for any thoughts!

Well Pat, I definitely do filter what Microsoft tries to load on my system, for example, their insistence in trying to sneak in Bing. Either way, I keep my system up to date constantly.
Do you understand that the file I am dealing with is on a separate disk from my system disk? I don't see any way that the OS would automatically delete files that are not part of the current OS.
I took the disks from my old PC and installed them inside of my new PC. The old system was Windows 7 32 bit, and my new system is Windows 8 64 bit. As I said, there is only one user on my new system, me, and I am the administrator, so there is no "original Windows Administrator password" other than the one that I use every day. The only thing that I can think of is that the file is linked to my old admin user name from the W7 system, but even if that is the case, then why wouldn't the "takeown" method give me ownership?

Time Machine doesn't back up system disk but does complete second disk

I have set up Time Machine to back up my system disk and one additional internal drive. Two other internal drives are excluded. The backup disk is external. On the initial backup Time Machine gets only one file from the system drive even though it has recognized that there are 121.5 GB included on that drive, but it backs up all 133 GB from the second drive. BTW, I haven't excluded anything but the two other drives. Here's the log from TM Buddy:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Aeronomy1
Backup content size: 121.5 GB excluded items size: 3.5 MB for volume Macintosh HD
Backup content size: 133.6 GB excluded items size: 0 bytes for volume Aeronomy1
No pre-backup thinning needed: 311.66 GB requested (including padding), 792.03 GB available
Copied 1 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copied 2411 files (133.4 GB) from volume Aeronomy1.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
I've double-checked that the drive and partition are properly formatted with a GUID partition table. The only thing I can't do is turn off the antivirus for the backup drive--the system administrator has eliminated the ability to modify the Symantec Antivirus app. But since it is working in general, it wouldn't seem that is an issue.
Any help is appreciated for getting my main drive backed up!

Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Can I create a system disk on one machine, and swap it into another?

I just reinstalled the Win 7 Pro operating system, using lenovo install disks, on my 3820/K1000m W530. I may end up getting a 3840QM/K2000M W530, and wanted to know if I can just swap the disk I just made into the new machine, this avoiding the issue of re-creating the disk. I have Windows Office 2013 on the thing. I was hoping to
1) Deactivate Windows 2013 (and adobe creative suite) on the source machine from the source disk.
2) Physically Install a clean Samsung 850 Pro 500 into the new target machine.
3) Put the source disk in a usb-based disk case and attach it to the target machine.
4) Boot to a diskcopy program from the optical drive on the target machine.
5) Copy the system disk, with all my ancillary programs and such, onto the target machine
6) Restore the source disk to the source machine.
7) Boot the target machine and (here's what I'm hoping) have the target machine validate/activate windows 7
8) reactivate office on the target machine, and reinstall the Adobe license
9) reactivate office on the source machine
I would then have two functional machines, a main (target) and a spare.
Will this work? Or must I install win 7 from scratch?
IF this is not possible, do the W530 Bioses have a windows s/n that is version specific? In other words, if I can dig up Windows Ultimate (I'd like to get bitlocker), can I install that instead of pro?
Thanks!
Jim
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/Ultimate

I have to disagree with you, DSperber. First of all Microsoft doesn't care if you install Windows, as long as you have a valid COA and your version matches that COA. You can actually download the Windows 7 ISOs for the Windows version you need! I understand that they legally require a COA on each Win machine sold, to allow folks to rebuild blown systems. This is discussed on the microsoft Windows 7 forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/where-can-i-download-wind...
You can download the ISO, load it, and then use the COA key to validate. Apparently while Microsoft requires this printed COA, they prefer it to be used only in extreme cases, as when the oem SLP does not work. I take this to mean that Microsoft WANTS you to install the OEM software, rather than bother them. Because if you use the printed COA activation key, you have to contact MS to validate it.
Some more information is here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/what-is-different-between...
The point is, the COA sticker on the computer vouches that you are entitled to have a valid Windows license on that computer. It may be that Lenovo doesn't want you to use the recovery disks from another computer. If so, your note would seem to imply that Lenovo is actually more restrictive about their software than Microsoft!
I understand that using the recovery disks from another computer may seem to deprive Lenovo of the 50 bucks they get when you order them. I wish I could have saved that money several times. But hey, these disks aren't customized. You call in with your model number and serial number, and Lenovo sends out recovery disks with the approprate version of windows originally sold with the machine (sorry, Vista customers!), with the OEM SLP. So its not a licensing issue, it's a (very small) revenue issue. And every time someone is able to resurrect their Lenovo machine without a hassle and without that $50, it's worth far, far more in terms of good will. Perhaps saving that 50 bucks is what pushes me over the edge to buy a new W541 or W550!
Jim
I currently have:
2 T61ps, both Pennryn, both 8Gb Crucial RAM, both 1Tb hybrid drives, T9500 and
1 T510, (I forget the specs)
2 W530s, both i7-8420QM, 16Gb and 8Gb, both Samsung 850 Pro 256Gb SSDs, K1000m and K2000m, with 1080p screens.
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/Ultimate

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is stil

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is still readable. The only Adobe product I have reinstalled so far is Reader XI but I would like to reinstall Elements 8 and Acrobat 9 without taking up more licences as both are also installed on my laptop. Can you point me to the best way to do this? - Thanks

If you have the two allotted activations already and one was lost on the hard drive that failed then you need to contact Adobe Support thru chat and ask them to reset your activations.
For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

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