I was installing another operating system last week and it pretty much deleated my windows operating system. I can use the other linux operating system now but now I can’t play any of many games now even with WINE.

I have the recovery disks for my acer aspire 5610Z. Will this be able to fix my hard drive system and repair deleted master boot record?

I recently reformated my hard drive and installed linux Ubuntu. Everything has been working exept that i cannot connect to the interet. When I try it just brings up the interet passcode box and says i need to retype it. Is it my router or am I just doing something wrong?

I want to be able to switch between using Linux and Windows without overloading or complicating one hard drive. Are there any pitfalls with running different operating systems in seperate hard drives?

I just got a computer second hand and I want to take out one of its hard drives. The problem is that I still want the computer to work and the hard drive I want out has the operating system on it. What do I do?

I have a full windows partition that has all of my important files. Is it possible to install Linux on this hard drive without reformatting my data?

I tried using KNOPPIX, but I was unable to open any data from my C drive with it. I couldn’t delete files either. I have reason to believe that Linux could come in handy in the event of a trojan attack. The way I see it is I could boot to linux and delete the infected files but with KNOPPIX that doesn’t seem possible.

So a CD distro is probably out of the question. Is there any other way to use linux on a computer w/ a full NTFS partition?
btw, I don’t have any viruses right now. That idea just came to mind when I was looking at KNOPPIX
I have a program called Partition Magic? Can I use this?

I transferred all my parts into a new case and hard drive, dvd-rom, processor, and fans all power on but I have no video. Also usb and keyboard is not lit up. I think it is a grounding issue. But just wanting some ideas.

My friend that is a desktop specialist has confirmed that my hard drive crashed and that I need to have the operating system reinstalled. She has agreed to do it but its taking her forever since we both have busy schedules. I would like to do it myself if I can get someone to give me exact directions on what to do. I have a gateway computer and the cd came with it. Can someone please assist as I need my computer for school, Thanks!

Formatting your hard drive? How to back up an operating system from laptop and download to my desktop computer?

Which linux distribution would be the best to install on a older computer that still woks fine, like: 866mhz, 512ram, 80GB hard drive?
I mean, so I can reuse an older computer for basic tasks such as browsing the web, writing documents, store some music and pictures.

What operating system manages taking processes from the hard drive onto memory the most efficiently while providing security for other jobs running in memory and reallocates free memory the best?

Does this higher efficiency have anything to do with hardware, your thoughts?