> A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago Ouch! I have heard bugs can make a program crash but this is a little more extreme.
> I put it all together, turned the PC on, and it booted into Ubuntu straight > away - with everything working. We had a lightning strike where I work last week. It ripped through the LAN and killed around 40 network cards (Windows even fails to load TCP/IP now when a new NIC is installed) and nuked many switches. Amazingly, my Ubuntu Desktop PC was surrounded by dead Windows boxes but was still powered on and with the network card in full working order. We had many other Linux boxes around the building that were in areas of dead PCs but survived! > I've got an XP partition too. > - it probably won't boot If the motherboard is just slightly different and the Mass Storage Devices have changed, it may not even get into Safe Mode. :) Sysprep is the only way to get around that, but that needs to be run with the PC booted :( Matthew -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
