[Staffslug] Thank you Linux

My youngest daughter has Windows Vista Home Basic on her laptop. Yesterday it died on her with all of her college work held on there :-( So, as usual it was a case of "dad, can you sort this?" No amount of coaxing with system restore or emergency disks worked. So, I pooped in the Ubuntu 8.10 disk and fired that up. Fan bloody tastic!!! Why didn't I do this to start with? I just plugged an external HD in and transferred all of her files onto that. Next job is to wipe this pile of dog do off and put a slightly better pile of dog do on. She wants XP on it.... these young 'uns never learn. Anyway, as always, Linux came to the rescue... yippee :-) Just thought I'd share this with you all. -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire