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zezerbing
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Hello. I was given an HP pavilion5150. It had windose me on it but wasn't working real good. So I decided to play around for a while. I can't get a distro to load on it. I've tried a number of them. from puppy,(only in RAM) arch, to mint. The hard drive is inaccesable. The distro starts but then stops. My question is, is there a boot, recovery disc I could use to jump start this. Or would I have to take it in for repairs or new hard drive.
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I use Parted Magic (Which runs in RAM) to partition my hard disks. It also has some HD testing apps on it. You could give that a try, but, it really does sound like you have a hardware problem. You can download Parted Magic here:
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=partedmagic&month=July&year=2011
It's always worth giving it a try, who knows, you may be able to revive the disk by reformatting it.0 -
Thanks, I'll try that. When I first started with the Me working, I could get all the way to the hard drive, But it was mounted,unmounted or something. But I couldn't open it. I first thought windoze had "locked it". I could see it but I couldn't access it. Puppy would start to format it and would freeze. Now i can't access Me at all. Linux will start with script and just stop.0
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Hey here is what I found the config. about your laptop (via some Google search):
HP pavilion5150 - Product Specifications
Processor Intel® Pentium® III Processor 600MHz
Included Drives: 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive, DVD-ROM, Hard Drive
Hard Drive 10GB
DVD Rom 8X Read Speed
Memory 64MB Maximum of 256MB
Display 13.3" TFT-Active Matrix. 1280 x 1024 Screen Resolution
Communication Fax/Modem Integrated with 10/100 Ethernet 56K KBps Modem Speed
PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps Network Card
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® ME
So I understand it is understandably quite old. Here are my clear suggestions which work:
TRY Fedora Core-1 (avoid Fedora Core-2)
If not , else Try RedHat -9 Distro (it is the old last redhat series before Fedora)
Also you can try SuSE (check a Suse distribution around 5-6 years old).
SuSE is great as a desktop at that time.
Hope this helps.
If possible upgrade your RAM, actually you can get a old RAM quite cheap in a laptop service center. (ofcourse you cannot get in a shop to buy a new one in most cases).
You can install puppy linux, DSL (Damn small Linux), and so on, but they are live distributions, so I am not sure it will help you.
Cheers, Kiran (Author/Founder: TrafficSqueezer Linux Kernel WAN Optimization Solution - www.trafficsqueezer.org)0
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