Mandriva Linux Used to Save a XP Professional PC
I recently had to recover data from a very sick Dell Dimension computer running Microsoft XP Professional at one of our client sites. As usually happens in these cases Windows had chewed its’ hind legs off and was not working. What had occurred was one of the people at this site had plugged in a USB thumb-drive, a regular occurrence at this location, and the system went to a black screen. No BSOD, no error message, just a dead PC that had to be hard reset. Upon reboot the operating system reported it had crashed due to a “thermal event”. Then it loaded v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y taking over an hour to show the desktop and never drawing the icons.
Since this was beyond the scope of the users at the site to repair my company was called to handle the problem. I am the technical support guy so I packed up my laptop (Loaded with Mandriva Linux of course.), grabbed my briefcase, picked up my organizer and headed out with coffee in hand.
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