Make Windows XP look like Vista

[BoneCrusher]

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Okay been there done that ... keep rogain in the med cabinet just for this very reason. Have a good laptop in mothballs that's locked up for the lack of the knowledge on how to get past activation (pirate OS that I refreshed sp2 on so as to get the networking shit square ... when I rebooted I was fucked). Have data that I'd like to keep so I never scrubbed the hdd and started over.

SO now it's ubuntu time.

DOMS ... any suggestions?

 

[DOMS]

Okay been there done that ... keep rogain in the med cabinet just for this very reason. Have a good laptop in mothballs that's locked up for the lack of the knowledge on how to get past activation (pirate OS that I refreshed sp2 on so as to get the networking shit square ... when I rebooted I was fucked). Have data that I'd like to keep so I never scrubbed the hdd and started over.

SO now it's ubuntu time.

DOMS ... any suggestions?

To get at your old data?

You can boot off a Knoppix CD and access your laptop's hard drive. If you have a CD (or DVD) burner on you laptop, you can use Knoppix's CD burning software to burn your data.

Or you can go to CompUSA and buy and external laptop HD housing. Take you HD out of your laptop, put it into the housing, and attach it to any Windows PC at a standard external HD.

 

[BoneCrusher]

To get at your old data?

You can boot off a Knoppix CD and access your laptop's hard drive. If you have a CD (or DVD) burner on you laptop, you can use Knoppix's CD burning software to burn your data.

Or you can go to CompUSA and buy and external laptop HD housing. Take you HD out of your laptop, put it into the housing, and attach it to any Windows PC at a standard external HD.

I guess you to say that windows locked the OS, but the drive will be accessible from another system with a valid OS. Also that a linux OS will read the drive with the data on it even though it was saved by a windows xp OS ...

 

[BoneCrusher]

at 95% done with the d/l of ubuntu ... should I be downloading knoppix as an OS instead? how are they dif?

 

[maniclion]

at 95% done with the d/l of ubuntu ... should I be downloading knoppix as an OS instead? how are they dif?

Knoppix is a swee little linux distro that lets you boot it up from a CD drive it runs as an OS in memory alone, then you go to hd0(?) and sift through your locked up HD....once you find it you could A)hook up a USB external drive if you have one B) send it to another comp. via network or C) take out the Knoppix cd and burn the data to an empty cd.....As DOMS said you can also get a little USB external 2.5" harddrive housing and take the laptop drive out, slip it into that then plug the USB cable into your main PC and snag all the data you want off of it....

 

[BoneCrusher]

ubuntu run from cd doesn't recognise anything off the hard drive ... trying knoppix now ...

 

[Northernlights8]

how do you make the desktop rotate?

 

[Diablo1990]

My laptop which is a compaq 2100US can not run ubuntu it wont work. When I boot the cd and try to click install it just stops. It only has 192mb of ram which is pathetic and it's a 2.4ghz processor

 

[DOMS]

ubuntu run from cd doesn't recognise anything off the hard drive ... trying knoppix now ...

That's odd...

You should have better luck with Knoppix. It's made with the idea of being a rescue disc. The bootable version of Ubuntu is made with the idea of being a demo disc.

 

[DOMS]

My laptop which is a compaq 2100US can not run ubuntu it wont work. When I boot the cd and try to click install it just stops. It only has 192mb of ram which is pathetic and it's a 2.4ghz processor

Someone did you a disservice by selling you way too little RAM. Go and eBay and see if you can find more memory. If you don't, your laptop will never run correctly, no matter what OS you put on it.

How long ago did you try to install Ubuntu on your laptop?

 

[DOMS]

how do you make the desktop rotate?

You have to install Beryl. Then hold down the left 'alt' and 'cntl' key; then click and hold the left mouse button and simply move the mouse left or right.

 

[BigDyl]

I'm waiting for the Feisty Fawn release in April.

 

[DOMS]

It'll be yet another easy upgrade.

 

[DOMS]

 

[Diablo1990]

A week ago I tried to install ubuntu on it I got the laptop for like 499 when I was 12

 

[BoneCrusher]

That's odd...

You should have better luck with Knoppix. It's made with the idea of being a rescue disc. The bootable version of Ubuntu is made with the idea of being a demo disc.

It hangs when it get to this:
Looking for cd in: /dev/ hdc _

and just stays there ... for several hours.

 

[BigDyl]

Sounds like the disk in the (cd/dvd/rom) is corrupted, or the data on it is at least

Drive sounds like it's being mounted properly though.

 

[BoneCrusher]

Burned it with nero ... did validation and came out okay. I'll dl it again and burn another cd I guess.

 

[BigDyl]

Burn it as an image and specify the iso. Don't just burn it to a cd.

 

[DOMS]

It hangs when it get to this:
Looking for cd in: /dev/ hdc _

and just stays there ... for several hours.

There is the possibility that there is a something wrong with your hard drive.

I've used Knoppix and Ubuntu on a PC with 5 hard drives, 3 CDROMS, a SCSI card, a new (as of that time) NVidia card, an Audigy Gamer, a stand-alone NIC, and a MOBO with tons of add-ons. All without a hitch.

Try booting up with a Windows CD and doing a check disk.

You can also probably take the HD out of the laptop just by unscrewing a bay and popping it out. Put it into an external housing and do a check disk on it via USB from another PC.

Oh, and just for fun, try booting from you Ubuntu CD on another computer and see what happens.

 

[DOMS]

Burn it as an image and specify the iso. Don't just burn it to a cd.

That can't be the problem. He's obviously already booted from the CD. An ISO burned as a file wouldn't boot.

 

[BigDyl]

well if it's looking for a CD in the device: hdc which is your cd rom, you'd think data is unreadable on the CD. If it's to the copying process (copying files to hd) then that's a different story.

 

[DOMS]

well if it's looking for a CD in the device: hdc which is your cd rom, you'd think data is unreadable on the CD. If it's to the copying process (copying files to hd) then that's a different story.

True, there might be a defect on the disc; but I don't think the problem is that he burned the ISO as a file because he'd never make it to the discovering of the hard drives and CDROM.

The 'hdc' error message is something that Linux would throw, not the BIOS or Windows, so he's at least booted the kernel on the CD.

 

[BoneCrusher]

There is the possibility that there is a something wrong with your hard drive.

I've used Knoppix and Ubuntu on a PC with 5 hard drives, 3 CDROMS, a SCSI card, a new (as of that time) NVidia card, an Audigy Gamer, a stand-alone NIC, and a MOBO with tons of add-ons. All without a hitch.

Try booting up with a Windows CD and doing a check disk.

You can also probably take the HD out of the laptop just by unscrewing a bay and popping it out. Put it into an external housing and do a check disk on it via USB from another PC.

Oh, and just for fun, try booting from you Ubuntu CD on another computer and see what happens.

Booted and ran ubuntu fine. Knoppix just locks up when it gets to:
Looking for cd in: /dev/ hdc _

I guess I could go spend the moolah on an enclosure and pull the data I want off, then install the hard drive back into the lap top, then install a linux OS ... but that seems like the secondary route. How much are these enclosures anyway? If I go that far I might as well upgrade the hard drive to whatever the max is and use this one as a portable external .

See if I like running linux ... and I already know I will from the ubuntu experience ... then I'm going to want to switch to a linux release on my convertible acer c310. That's what I'm on now and want to be able to use it with gps software for various reasons.

WTF am I getting myself into there? DO I need to order more rogain? Maybe a valium chaser?

 

[DOMS]

How much are these enclosures anyway?

$30

If I go that far I might as well upgrade the hard drive to whatever the max is and use this one as a portable external .

If you have the cash, you can put a bigger HD in your laptop and use the old one (in the external housing) as a backup drive.

That's what I'm on now and want to be able to use it with gps software for various reasons.

You're GPS software may be a problem. It might work under WINE, but it might not. I got lucky, all of the Windows software that I wanted to use (even my financial software) works fine on Ubuntu (with WINE).

WTF am I getting myself into there? DO I need to order more rogain? Maybe a valium chaser?

BigDyl will give you a back message.

 

[tucker01]

BigDyl will give you a back message.

A back message....BigDyl has some mad skills then.

 

[DOMS]

A back message....BigDyl has some mad skills then.

I'll give you grammar herpes.

 

[maniclion]

WTF am I getting myself into there? DO I need to order more rogain? Maybe a valium chaser?

If you are going to play around with Linux on laptops go buy the external housing, I got mine for $20 back before they were even popular, now I think I saw them for $40....trust me they are a life saver when your laptops foul up...cheaper than most prescriptions too!

 

[BoneCrusher]

I like laptops ... so yeah I guess I better go external. I don't game any more since they killed off AOE.

 

[BoneCrusher]

Gonna go buy and enclosure right now ... more on the migration of bone from winblows to Linux as the story develops.

I just hope I can include the c310 convertible in the move ... I really wanna get away from M$. GPS is a must though ...