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[mi3x]

First let me say hi to everyone, this is my 1st post and I am glad I found knoppix. I have a real problem. I own a very nice HP laptop, the only problem being that I have no HDD, therefore it stayed almost 2 month in my closed. Not only it does not have the HDD anymore, but it also misses the link (I don t know what is called, i'm not a native eng speaker) that connects the Hard drive to the laptop. All IT stores told me that they do not sell that piece and that I should buy an external hard drive on a rack and try install windows on it.
Which I did.. and now I am sorry. I bought 2 external hdds with racks via USB 2,0 but I cannot install windows though...it gives me the blue screen with some error after copying win files and rebooting.

So now I came across knoppix.. What I need to know from you guys, can I install knoppix on the external hdd and boot it from there? Or there is any other known bootable cd with windows that I could use? Please help, I paid alot on this laptop, I really need to use it. Any suggestions are welcomed. Thanks alot for your patience when reading this.

[OErjan]

that depends on one thing and one thing alone, can it boot from USB. if it can it should work, if not you may still start it with a CD and pivot root to USB. there are other ways, search this forum for more info, it is out there.

[TimJ]

mi3x hi,
notjing to do with loading Knoppix but have you tried talking direct to HP/compaq directly to get the bit you need, I have found they are quite helpful,

Tim

[mi3x]

Ty for replying guys.. Well, I searched in bios and it does have the boot from USB option. So should I try copying it on the external drive and boot from there? I will do a lil search hopefully Ill find something. :D