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(Vanity) My laptop died, need cheap OS
geronl

Posted on 09/05/2012 9:02:46 AM PDT by GeronL

My Toshiba Satellite L305 has crapped out. It did not come with the reinstallation disk. I can get a new hard drive but I need an O/S. It is too old to run Windows 7, which I can't really afford.

Does anyone know where I can buy a Windows Vista Home Premium (or sumtin') disk or product key for a good price?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: computerhelp; geeksquad; linux
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To: GeronL
Yeah, here's one for $4.79 with free shipping: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-Inch-Sata-USB-2-0-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-External-Laptop-Disk-HDD-/130742354995?pt=US_Drive_Enclosures_Docks&hash=item1e70da0433 I know what you mean. I remember when hard drives were $4000.
121 posted on 09/06/2012 12:18:29 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

back before anyone had heard of a Gigabyte, right?


122 posted on 09/06/2012 6:42:52 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: texas booster; Spktyr

OK. It’s out of the shop.

The old hardrive says TOSHIBA, so I guess they make their own? The new one is Seagate.

The reciept has the serial #, although they are right, its pretty much rubbed off. If you hold it to the light at an angle you can almost make it out. lol.

Hopefully this is the info I’ll need to get an installation disk.

I will now attempt to start a computer with a blank HD and hopefully load Linux onto it.


123 posted on 09/06/2012 11:31:03 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
back before anyone had heard of a Gigabyte, right?

Oh, yeah. The one I'm thinking of was actually external to (and the same size as) the PC.

A few years later, my brother-in-law had a PC on which he ran his gardening business and he was quite proud that it had a hard disk. The way he used the term was a little confusing till I found out he meant a 3-1/2" floppy (cause it was "harder" than the standard 5-1/4")

124 posted on 09/06/2012 11:42:20 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: ShadowAce; RebelTex; null and void; texas booster

It did not read USB on boot, but it looks like Puppy Linux CD will work.


125 posted on 09/06/2012 11:43:40 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Posting from Puppy Linux live CD.

Weird using 2 computers at the same time


126 posted on 09/06/2012 11:54:01 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?


127 posted on 09/06/2012 12:00:32 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: RebelTex

So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?


128 posted on 09/06/2012 12:00:38 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: RebelTex

So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?


129 posted on 09/06/2012 12:00:40 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: RebelTex

So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?


130 posted on 09/06/2012 12:00:49 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: RebelTex

So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?


131 posted on 09/06/2012 12:00:58 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: texas booster

I’ll be trying to get this working tonight. It’s running Puppy just fine at the moment though.

Hopefully I can get stuff of the old HD

Tonight I need to install Ubuntu or something on the new one.

I hope I can get that installation disk from Toshiba too.


132 posted on 09/06/2012 12:07:09 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

LOL - I just now got down to this post after reading through the thread.

I’m not sure on if you can install Ubuntu while running Puppy - I would think so, but you should make sure it’s installed to a different partition - otherwise the system will crash when it needs to read a puppy file that was overwritten by Ubuntu.

I’m not a Linux guy, so I can’t really help on that. I’m sure another FReeper that has Linux experience can help.

You can always go to the bios and change boot order to the USB drive if the bios supports that. Then you can boot to the USB drive and load Ubuntu without worrying about puppy linux.


133 posted on 09/06/2012 1:46:47 PM PDT by RebelTex
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To: RebelTex

Well, I did make USB second on the boot order and left the CD slot empty, why didn’t that work? I guess I didn’t make the USB bootable somehow, just having the ISO doesn’t do anything, how do I make it bootable?

The harddrive not being recognzed is still worrying me.


134 posted on 09/06/2012 1:58:38 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: RebelTex; texas booster; Spktyr

According to some of the things in the Toshiba forums, some of the new HD’s won’t work, the Advanced Format ones. What is that about? Would the idiots at Geek Squad install an HD that is incompatible?

Probably too early to tell if this relates to me.

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/System-Recovery-and-Recovery/Recovery-won-t-work-on-new-upgraded-hardrive-for-L505d-es5025/td-p/324200

The one they installed is a Seagate 500 GB, 7200 RPM HD


135 posted on 09/06/2012 2:12:05 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
Universal USB Installer

For future reference.

136 posted on 09/06/2012 2:16:01 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: GeronL

I cannot post at the Toshiba Forums with this horrible browser that came with Lucid Puppy Linux.


137 posted on 09/06/2012 2:21:19 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Stentor

The disc is not CD-RW so it’d be hard to add it, lol.


138 posted on 09/06/2012 2:25:48 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Cd not required. The program uses the ISO image. Does, however, require a functioning computer to create the bootable pen drive. Guess that’s why I used the word future. (;> Used it for my netbook.


139 posted on 09/06/2012 2:37:54 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: GeronL

The Seagate 500GB is most likely Advanced Format (AF) [able to read/write very large drives using smaller bits].

It also is 7200 RPM. I think that your system is limited to 5400 RPM. I’m trying to find the specs on it now.


140 posted on 09/06/2012 2:48:29 PM PDT by RebelTex
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