My computer problems seem to be over for the time being.  I tried a few long-shots this evening after work and lo and behold-- one of them worked!  HP was no help.  I'm glad that I don't have to call them again.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do about XP, maybe it's just not going to happen.  I might look into dual-booting Linux, if I can verify ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, I'm still around.  I would love to be online more often, but I'm still working on getting my desktop computer to work.  I've talked to HP tech support several times and, after running though all the should-be fixes that I'd already tried, they sent me recovery disks.  When the package arrived in the mail it had been bagged and ( Read more... )

The epic battle of my new computer continues.  For those new to the drama, basically things went to crap in my attempts to install XP to a separate partition.  Then it stopped loading Vista.  Or anything.  So.  "Failing on fire" is, I understand, the appropriate sentiment.  Apparently Microsoft released a Vista Restore disk available online, so I ( Read more... )