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Recover Files from Broken Virtual Box Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 10.04 Install ISO Video

Virtual Machines tend to get broken a lot since people love to use them for testing out new programs, viruses, antiviruses, and other programs which can corrupt a Windows or Linux based Virtual machine. But, you might have saved important data on your virtual machine which you need like a word document. I'll show you how to recover your files to another virtual drive, or a USB drive by booting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ISO CD Image in Virtual Box by Oracle.

1. First you right click your virtual machine which you can't log into because of a lost password or username, or can't boot.

2. Go to the System section, and make CD/DVD-ROM the first boot device by using the up and down arrow buttons to move the CD DVD-ROM to the top of the list.

3. Make sure in Storage, make sure the CD DVD disc image is set to your Ubuntu 10.04 LTS install ISO or set to your real CD-ROM Drive with the actual Ubuntu 10.04 LTS install CD in it.

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 10.04 Linux LTS video

Submitted by johnson on 2010, July 12 - 8:35pm

I'll show you how to simply install VirtualBox on your Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating system by using the Gdebi package installer in Ubuntu to install the VirtualBox Debian package for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which you download from Virtualbox.org. No terminal command prompts are required.

VirtualBox is a free open source virtualization program which allows you to run a guest operating system like Windows, OS X, Linux on a host OS like Ubuntu.

I also walk you through how to install a Virtual machine and set it up in Ubuntu. It is very easy all you have to do is press the New button in Virtual Box and follow the wizard. Once you set up your Virtualmachine. You need to right click it and pick settings to add a CD or CD image to boot from.

Good luck installinh Oracle Virtual Box in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and your virtual machine.

Start a computer from a Live USB Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Flash Drive video.

In this video, I will show you how I started my computer from a USB flash drive which had Ubuntu 10.04 LTS insyalled on it. The computer I am using is an HP a1720n desktop computer.

First, I press the pause key right after I turned on my computer to pause the start up process, and then I press the F10 BIOS entry key which may be differrent for your computer. I use the arrow and enter keys to navigate to the boot menu. I made sure hard drive was the first device to boot and my flash drive in the hard drive group was on top by using the - or + numpad key to bring the drive up or down, so my flash drive is on the top of the hard drive boot order group. Lastly, I press F10 to save and Exit my BIOS session. I wated for my computer to boot into Ubuntu from my flash drive. I then click the "try Ubuntu 10.04 LTS button" and waited for my PC to load Ubuntu in Live USB flash drive mode.

Use Oracle Virtual Box to Make Live USB Flash Drive with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS video

Submitted by johnson on 2010, June 21 - 9:18pm

I show you how to make a USB Flash drive with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS preloaded on it in this video. Basically, all I did was made a new virtual machine in Virtual box, and mounted Ubuntu install live CD ISO image onto my virtual machine and also added my USB drive to my Virtual machine. Make sure your USB flash drive have at least 700MB of free space. I started my Virtual Machine, and waited for Ubuntu to load. Lastly, click on "Try Ubuntu 10.04 LTS" button. In System > Administration > Start up disk creator where you can make a USB live Flash drive with Ubuntu loaded on it.

The advantage of using a USB to boot your drive from a USB drive is it is not as load and faster then loading Ubuntu from a Live CD.

When booting your computer from a flash drive, make sure your computer can start from a flash drive and you know how to set your BIOS boot manager to start from a bootable USB drive.