Re: can someone help

On 8/2/07, rspickles@computers4all.org <rspickles@computers4all.org> wrote:
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> Hi all
> There may be a lady showing up at the AKLUG meeting this week looking
> for some help - She has a laptop that has had Windows take a crash - She
> wants to salvage some files if possible. Right now her computer is
> blue-screening during the boot process. I do have a board that you can
> use to connect a laptop drive into a desktop computer if someone would
> like to use it to make the job easier. I cannot be at the meeting this
> Friday - Wedding anniversary. So if this lady shows can someone take
> care of her.
>
> Roger
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Wow! I am in a similar pickle (pun intended). This young woman handed her HP
Pavilion zv6000 series laptop to me to recover files. When booting, Windows
XP comes up with the save mode choice, but it just strums its lips no matter
what choice is selected. I whipped out a handy copy of Knoppix (ancient
version 3.3) and popped it into the DVD/CD drive. It booted but complained
about the ACPI. Given the age of the Knoppix CD, I suspected a later version
might boot properly. In any case I got a root prompt so I mounted the hard
drive at a convienent point, namely /mnt. Stuff was there, so she asked me
to take it home and burn a CD with her files.
At home, I dragged out an Ubuntu CD (Dapper Drake) 6.x and popped it into
the appropriate orifice. It booted without complaining about the ACPI, but
the CD did not have the Broadcom wireless (bcm43xx) firmware, so it couldn't
bring up the wireless. The Ethernet port worked just fine, so I set about
checking out Ubuntu and off loading her files to my traveling mirror which
is what I had with me when I tried booting with that acient copy of Knoppex.

I conclude the Windows XP operating system (excuse the expression) has
committed Hari Kari. She took the precious little beastie to Best Buy or
CompUSA. Some tech told her the motherboard was probably toast, so she
bought herself a new computer at one of the office supply places (Office Max
or Office Depot). They had a really good one time deal apparently.

I am recommending she let me install Ubuntu. I would like to resize the
partition so I can later mount the old partition read-only after Ubuntu is
up and running with all the latest restricted drivers and codecs.

I am heading to Valdez tomorrow (Friday) so I won't be at the Laboratory
Session.

Cheerio!

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Fielder George Dowding, KL7FHX
dba Iceworm Enterprises
Debian GNU/Linux Etch
User Number 269482
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