Linux Live CDs

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The computer used to boot up and work, but after a few minutes it would crash and give the blue screen of death. I thought maybe the OS had become corrupted so I deleted the current partition and created a new one so that I could reinstall Windows. However it crashed several times during the OS setup and never finished installing.

I tried using a Linux Live CD (which loads entirely into ram) and it ran fine for hours, it never crashed. I finally tried installing Linux onto the harddrive but it failed as well, now the partition editor in Linux doesn’t even recognize the HD device.

Does this situation sound like a HD failure? A while back I thought it could possibly be the power-supply but now I’m leaning towards the HD. The computer is an EMachine Desktop, bought in 2005.

I am made to believe that many a times hard disks wont mount and hence one cannot backup the data if windows didn’t shut down properly or cannot start?
is that true?
whats the work around?
Secondly…I always wondered , what can Linux do that windows cannot.
Third: I just cannot get my ppoe connection that requires a user name pswd. to connect to the internet , wired connection that is. The service provider just throws in a LAN cable that plugs into the Ethernet port..and that’s it.
Fourth: I cant get Ubuntu to play my media files: what more should i do?

I have a 150GB portable hard drive and i want to know whether or not i can do a full install of windows or linux on it so wherever i go, i can just plug it in and boot from it and have all my files. Does this work?

i just said full version of linux because i know there are live cds but i mean like it installs on a partition

the laptop is set to boot from cd first. the linux live cd used to work but it has stopped working, does this mean this particular function wont work for other live cd’s?

I have downloaded Linux and going to burn it to CD when I boot from it will it install over Vista as I have never used Linux and just want to try it but I have heaps of programs that is still on Vista that I dont want to download again. Also is other programs like PC games, Mircosoft office still work fine on Linux as well as hardware such as Printers, joysticks etc. still going to work to, do they need drivers. Its Ubuntu 64 OS