Dell Studio 15555 Windows Key

Scott Mcintyre — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:56:30 +0000

While trying to reinstall one of my windows laptops (A Dell 1555 Studio) to Windows 7 I had alittle trouble locating the windows activation/product key. After alittle fiddling I managed to locate this well hidden under the battery.

So if you are looking for this on your dell laptop try taking the battery out and see if the sticker is under there.

Mounting ext2/ext3 partitions on windows

Scott Mcintyre — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:57:05 +0000

Today I needed to mount one of my USB sticks on windows to copy some files over. To get windows to recognise it I altered/etc/mke2fs.conf and done the following.

Removed ext_addr from “base_features” and commented out the inode_size line. Here is a diff from the default ubuntu e2fsprogs /etc/mke2fs.conf with the necessary changes,

— /etc/mke2fs.orig.conf 2011-11-28 15:20:07.365231775 +0000
+++ /etc/mke2fs.conf 2011-11-28 15:20:48.165231803 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
[defaults]
– base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr
+ base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index
blocksize = 4096
– inode_size = 256
+ #inode_size = 256
inode_ratio = 16384

[fs_types]

Then format the partition and this will allow it to be mounted on windows.

I used DiskInternals Linux Reader on windows to mount the drive and copy the files which can be downloaded for free at

Windows – Scott Mcintyre

Dell Studio 15555 Windows Key

Mounting ext2/ext3 partitions on windows