Mark Roberts wrote: > Amita Guha wrote: > >> My PC laptop is on its last legs, and I'm not too into Vista, > > You're apparently not alone: > http://www.news.com/The-XP-alternative-for-Vista-PCs/2100-1016_3-6209481.html?tag=item > > > Vista has failed, unrecoverably (is that a word?), twice on my 7 month old laptop. I know a handful of people who have had no difficulties with off-the-shelf Vista, which leads me to believe that it's probably HP's ad-ware bloated image. After the first failure I ran Ubuntu Linux for several months without incident, switching back to Vista about a month ago because I have a scanner that doesn't play well with Linux. Yesterday the laptop wouldn't boot. Again. I tried installing XP, but it didn't see a hard disk. A few quick google searches turned up instructions for disabling SATA native mode. An illegal copy of XP is now installed and running very smoothly.
The way I see it, I paid for an OS when I bought this machine. It's not my fault it doesn't work. So screw 'em. After all, they still have my money. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
