jordankulo
April 28th, 2008, 07:36 PM
Hello, I am by far not new to the Linux scene, however I am very, very annoyed by a problem I am having with a recently acquired laptop. It is running Windows Xp currently I am really would lie to put Ubuntu or any other flavor of linux onto it. The issue is that I can't even boot my windows install disk, I have tried close to 15 different flavors and versions of linux; it will not boot.
Acer 2420 WXCi it was manufactured March 20th, 2006.
-It has been upgraded to 2 gigs of DDR2 ram
-Has a 40 gig hd
-Has a CD-RW/DVD-ROM
-Bluetooth
-Broadcom Wireless
-Internal V90 56k modem
-Celeron M 1.6Ghz
-Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 (validated)
When I checked for Bios updates there are none. Also there is no floppy drive and I do not have an external disc dive. I have tried all the bios settings as well as boot menu, even removing the hard drive wouldn't allow it to read the disc to boot.
*Point of Clarification: The disc drive does work 100% of the time in Windows.
Please if there is anything I can do i will try it. I am quite miserable with Windows on it!
Acer 2420 WXCi it was manufactured March 20th, 2006.
-It has been upgraded to 2 gigs of DDR2 ram
-Has a 40 gig hd
-Has a CD-RW/DVD-ROM
-Bluetooth
-Broadcom Wireless
-Internal V90 56k modem
-Celeron M 1.6Ghz
-Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 (validated)
When I checked for Bios updates there are none. Also there is no floppy drive and I do not have an external disc dive. I have tried all the bios settings as well as boot menu, even removing the hard drive wouldn't allow it to read the disc to boot.
*Point of Clarification: The disc drive does work 100% of the time in Windows.
Please if there is anything I can do i will try it. I am quite miserable with Windows on it!