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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 505752" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p>I have mentioned in a previous post about a Linux stick however a satellite laptop came into my possession recently and what a sorry mess that was. The owner had had it to three places for an estimate and all three had taken it to bits, so it was not surprising that nothing worked. The hard drive gave IO errors some long screws were in the wrong place impinging on the motherboard others were missing altogether. Battery does not charge. Despite me getting it sort of working I advised her to buy a new one as even the mini power adaptor board was broken. So it could not even be main run. I did manage to do a temporary fix for that.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow I decided that this may be a good vehicle to use with my stick but then whilst playing I discovered why the HD was giving IO errors as the drive was not seated correctly in the adaptor. Then the drive could not be read as it had corrupted sectors and even reformatting did not help. The odd thing was though that the linux stick knew the drive was there identified it but could not read anything. In the end I took the drive to pieces and found a small piece of the filter material sitting on the polished disk. I blew it away and put the drive back together. I do have a USB to 2.5, 3.5 and SATA drive adaptor and connected it to that. Suddenly although it could still not read the corrupted disc I was at the third attempt able to Fdisk and reformat the drive successfully.</p><p></p><p>I then decided to try Linux Mint, and whilst it was a bit of a pain to install on this laptop from an iso I burnt to CD. Once it was on and I added the correct Windows WIFI driver suddenly it all started working, the mint level 1 ungrades and level 2 have now updated and I still have another 98 level 3 upgrades to install at my leisure. I do like the overall feel of the mint version but I still have a screen driver issues to resolve yet but hey I cannot do everything at once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topper, post: 505752, member: 186250"] I have mentioned in a previous post about a Linux stick however a satellite laptop came into my possession recently and what a sorry mess that was. The owner had had it to three places for an estimate and all three had taken it to bits, so it was not surprising that nothing worked. The hard drive gave IO errors some long screws were in the wrong place impinging on the motherboard others were missing altogether. Battery does not charge. Despite me getting it sort of working I advised her to buy a new one as even the mini power adaptor board was broken. So it could not even be main run. I did manage to do a temporary fix for that. Anyhow I decided that this may be a good vehicle to use with my stick but then whilst playing I discovered why the HD was giving IO errors as the drive was not seated correctly in the adaptor. Then the drive could not be read as it had corrupted sectors and even reformatting did not help. The odd thing was though that the linux stick knew the drive was there identified it but could not read anything. In the end I took the drive to pieces and found a small piece of the filter material sitting on the polished disk. I blew it away and put the drive back together. I do have a USB to 2.5, 3.5 and SATA drive adaptor and connected it to that. Suddenly although it could still not read the corrupted disc I was at the third attempt able to Fdisk and reformat the drive successfully. I then decided to try Linux Mint, and whilst it was a bit of a pain to install on this laptop from an iso I burnt to CD. Once it was on and I added the correct Windows WIFI driver suddenly it all started working, the mint level 1 ungrades and level 2 have now updated and I still have another 98 level 3 upgrades to install at my leisure. I do like the overall feel of the mint version but I still have a screen driver issues to resolve yet but hey I cannot do everything at once. [/QUOTE]
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