Yo. So my bro's computer started randomly restarting. Kind of like Blaster, only AVG and Ad-Aware came up squeaky clean. It got worse and worse, so we concluded that a format and reinstall was the way forward.
So I needed to back up just a few bits in My Documents. I couldn't move them to another parttion, the PC just restarted. I didn't want particularly to put a possibly infected HD in my own comp, so I hit upon the, frankly, genius idea of downloading a Knoppix CD at work.
I take it home and fire it up, and lo and behold I'm using Linux on a CD. BUT, I can't copy **** around. It won't let me write to any of my HD partitions (on either HD). And when I located the CD burning tool, the OS just packed up after a couple of minutes of writing. Thus, my first question is: does this sound like normal Knoppix behaviour?
Eventually I proclaim the immortal words "**** this for a game of soldiers" and go plonk the offending HD in my own box. I back up what I need, and all is peachy. I replace the disk in my bro's box and boot off my (legit, but stolen off a friend) XP Home CD. I delete the appropriate partition and create a new one, formatting it as NTFS, natch. But when the installer is copying files across it all goes tits up.
Basically it reports not being able to copy such and such a file. Not always the same file, mind. Gets to somewhere around 30-50% before deciding to go on strike. Now, I'm going to try to locate one of my more, how to say, legal grey-area copies of Winders later on but I'm wondering if this string of problems suggests a problem with the disk itself? Place your bets.
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