The hard drive on my HP laptop crashed. I got the files recovered but they wanted over 400 bucks to re-install the operating system on the new drive...NOT paying that today.
The laptop had Vista on it, which I hate, so I am thinking I will either install XP Pro, for which I have the disks from another laptop with a dead power supply, or upgrade to Win 7. I was also thinking that perhaps I would make it a dual boot and put Linux on part of the hard drive. However, it has been years since I installed Windows because everything I've bought in the last 10 years or so came with the OS already installed, or else I had an IT tech to do the installs for me. I'm fairly sure that to install Win 7 as a upgrade I will have to install either XP or Vista first because the drive is blank and the upgrade will look for the previous install. Could one of you kind souls give a quick bullet list of what the best approach would be for this task? My google-foo seems to be depleted on this topic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329245 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
