I don't know if this would interest anyone...but I have an HP Athlon XP based laptop with 512MB of RAM, a DVD reader with CD burner and an 802.11g wifi card. I've had this laptop (its an HP ze4610us) for almost a year and a half and it has stopped recognizing my hard drive. I've put the hard drive in a different laptop of the same model and it works just fine. Putting my friend's HD in my laptop resulted in the same problems as with my HD...no boot...not finding of HD.



But it boots to knoppix from CD just fine (doesn't find the wifi card from what I can tell...not expert linux user and haven't messed around with knoppix before).

We don't have much use for a laptop that can't boot to windows (wife is a windows only user), so we're going to buy a new laptop and I was wondering if someone here might be interested in buying this laptop (without the hard drive and as far as I know without the possibility of adding a hard drive...at least not without going to USB...and it only has USB 1.1 built in). If I don't sell it I'll most likely just rip out all the components and try to ebay them seperately.

anyone interested?