Re: off topic: need someone to recover Windows for a friend

On 9 November 2010 07:25, Neochick <[email protected]> wrote:

> How old is the laptop? One big thing you can run into trouble is the driver
> for the hard drive, I dont think XP disks have any SATA drivers, so you need
> a slipstreamed disk. nlite can do that if you have a) an xp disk and b) the
> correct sata drivers
>
>
I've given the laptop back as had been fiddling for a few weeks and had
tried to find the drivers by googling, but without success.  Hopefully
she'll find someone who won't charge the earth to get it going properly.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Registered Linux user #386597 http://counter.li.org/
"The most beautiful thing in life we can experience is the mysterious.  It
is the source of all true science."  Einstein

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