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I have a Compaq CQ50-115nr. I bought it online for pretty cheap. The listing says the HDD is bad, which is fine, I have a ton of those sitting around. I get the laptop, rpl the hdd, it still won’t recognize it, disk read error. I assume it is the SATA port, yank the hdd and throw it in an external case and figure I will boot to usb. Same thing. I try the hdd on my regular computer and it has Linux on it.

I am having trouble even getting this laptop to do the same thing twice. One time it will boot to the WIndows cd, go through the initial loading files portion and then pop up an error (trying to get 0x code), another time it will go to the disk read error again, and sometimes it just sits there and has a blinking cursor until I shut it off.

So far I have tried:
1. taking out the ram chips 1 by 1 and trying in different slots
2. Windows xp, vista and 7 (the xp disk wont even spin up, but is filthy so…)
3. put a new hdd in
4. tried different usb ports
5. crying and punching a pillow (I rent so hitting a wall is a no go)
6. resetting cmos
7. resetting bios
8. booting up to a diagnostics cd and running tests (doesnt find the hdd so those tests are pretty short)
9. booting to a live cd (only worked once or twice, and I was so shocked didnt think to try anything, just sat there looking at the screen)

Any help or suggestions (or random insults) would be appreciated. I want to flash the BIOS and update to the newest version, but the HP website says it is some utility and I have to have Windows installed to use it?!

And my laptop has no HDD in it. I run from a Ubuntu live CD and I need help. Is it possible to use the computer this way: Run from a live CD, then load contents saved from USB device, use USB Device for extra storage space, and use shared HDD from windows to linux. Please help.

I run Ubuntu from a live cd on a laptop. How can I share HDD over a network from windows to linux?

I tried the live cd of opensuse 10.3 and i now want it installed to my pc.But i am worried about my data.I want both xp and suse.But i cannot figure out how to do partition of hdd to make both OS running and no data loss at all.I am new for linux and i face problem in figuring out what is /root and swap and whatever i cant understand.Please someone help me out.As i have a old pc i have speed problems.but i found opensuse faster than xp.I’ll appreciate if someone can clear my doubts.

I’m trying to install the Core Linux Distribution so I can try to build my own operating system just to see how it works, and when I tried to install a different iso, it didn’t give me the option to install it to the external hdd only the internal one — I’d rather not take apart my computer.

OH and I”m using the black macbook 2.4ghz any help is appreciated..thanks in advance