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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #60 on: January 07, 2011, 16:06 »
A lot of ice cream?  :o:
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #61 on: January 07, 2011, 17:25 »
Quote from: D-Dan on January 07, 2011, 15:02
For new users, Mint is about the best. http://www.linuxmint.com/

Downloading the DVD now.  At last, a legal use for torrents!  ;)
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #62 on: January 07, 2011, 18:27 »
It's the one I went for. v10?
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #63 on: January 07, 2011, 18:31 »
Yup.
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #64 on: January 07, 2011, 18:33 »
I had a quick look at the live CD then Xmas overtook me.
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #65 on: January 07, 2011, 18:35 »
It overtook you?  How far back did it leave you behind?   :)
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #66 on: January 07, 2011, 19:15 »
About 10 days. ;D
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #67 on: January 07, 2011, 19:39 »
Quote from: Simon on January 07, 2011, 17:25
Downloading the DVD now.  At last, a legal use for torrents!  ;)

You should have no problems with Mint - pretty much everything just works (including media).

You'll be pleased to know it comes with Transmission bit torrent client, so you can get back to illegal downloading pretty quickly ;)

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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #68 on: January 07, 2011, 19:45 »
 ;D
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #69 on: January 07, 2011, 20:01 »
Oh, I'm not going near it, Steve.  It's just for emergency uses, unless I get bored with hacking forums.   Oops, shouldn't have said that...   :blush: :scoot:
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #70 on: January 07, 2011, 20:16 »
In that case, you may want to make a note on the disk of the AV - ClamAV, which is not a part of the standard distribution (you can "install" in a live environment should you need it - it just won't be there after a reboot). Other tools such as gparted (partition editor) are included as standard, and data recovery where Windows simply won't boot doesn't need any special software, just the built in file manager.

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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #71 on: January 07, 2011, 20:48 »
Ouch!   :stars:
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #72 on: April 02, 2011, 12:34 »
Update on the dead HDD, it is dead!  :bawl:

But a friend of Michael's managed to get the data transferred to an external HDD.

So I bought a new HDD and it has been formatted and I think XP has been installed. I think, means that this is what I requested, but not necessarily what was installed.  ::)

Now the new problem is that when trying to install the drivers for the GFX card it blue screens and goes in to memory dump????

I have been informed that I can use it, but..... the graphics may look a bit strange....  ':|

Apparently this problem is beyond the boy geniuses who have tried to fix it. 
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #73 on: April 02, 2011, 12:38 »
Hi Kate

Is there an error code being displayed when it blue screens?
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Re: Boot Disc Failure, another one....
« Reply #74 on: April 02, 2011, 12:48 »
Hi Rik, how have you been?

I have no idea about the error message. I did ask ask, but was informed that it was just the blue screen then the memory dump.

I do seem to remember that it was doing similar before the HDD died.

Attention to detail isn't there strong point.  ::)

Just thought there might be something obvious, as I haven't looked at it myself.

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