Laptop Repair

Check out this picture (apologies for quality… my cell camera isn’t all that great in dim light). It sums up my evening:

A neighbor (and father of one of my son’s best friends) brought over a laptop for me to look at. It didn’t take long to realize it was hosed up pretty bad by a virus.

What we have:

• Knoppix CD – I initially booted off the Knoppix CD to have a look around and see what I could recover.
• Drive – Initially, I was going to copy his My Docs on to a USB Key. Then I realized it was over 12GB… I opted, instead, to just pull his drive, attach my USB converter to it and copy it all over to my server (and AV scan it all too, of course).
• Precision screw driver set – When you don’t have a small enough torx driver to remove the laptop screws, a nice small standard driver will usually fit.
• The obligatory notepad and pen – I can’t function without ‘em.

See that “Teach Yourself Java” book in the background? It finally found a way to be useful — it keeps my LCD monitor an extra two inches off my desk.

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1. Batting .000
2. Xubuntu with LXDE Inspired by Knoppix
3. Static Killed My Laptop
4. The Case of the Overheating Laptop
5. Another Laptop to Toy with Xubuntu