dell latitude D600 help required

-TangleFoot-

Time for a new hard disk drive, perhaps? Before you do that though, try using a live CD to see if anything else is broken.

dipsy

where would I get a live cd from?

also any idea how much new h/d would cost for a laptop?

thanks

diable

About £30 the D600 is an old machine so maybe speak to friends who may have a spare 30gb one knocking around that you try out before buying one yourself.

-TangleFoot-

dipsy wrote: »

where would I get a live cd from?

All the information you need in order to find one can be found somewhere in this thread, but if you'd rather have someone recommend a particular distribution I suggest you try Xubuntu.

Simply download the ISO, burn the image to CD and plop it into the laptop's disc drive. When you restart the machine, press [F12] during POST and choose the drive with the disc in it from the menu.

If you'd like to know more about the 'buntu family of distributions, take a look at the Ubuntu Pocket Guide.