Re: can someone help

On Thursday 02 August 2007 09:45:06 pm Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> On 8/2/07, rspickles@computers4all.org <rspickles@computers4all.org> wrote:
> > 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!

Yeah for Knoppix.

We should have some copies floating around Fridays.
I'm not going to make it this Friday or I'd bring some copies.

Right on Fielder!

              Bob Pelz
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Received on Fri Aug 3 00:06:01 2007