I repaired a Sony Viao for a friend of mine this winter -- hosed XP installation. I got a copy of Knoppix as a boot CD, and would switch over personally -- I suspect it's both more stable and boots MUCH faster. XP is a hog -- this was a 1.6G processor 512 MB ram system -- takes longer to boot than DOS/W3.1!

Ah, I'm showing my age again -- first computer was an Apple II with 128k of memory, used....

Peter


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