Cool! I ran dd over the hd and that fixed it!I then ran the restore disk and 
got xp running on the laptop.

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 1:39 pm, stu wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 2:34 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> > My dad got a new laptop (toshiba satelite) because his hd (?) died. BIOS
> > loads and then it says:
> >  	'Load Error!
> > 	'Press a key to reboot.'
> > The HD ia an HTS424040m9at00-(pm). Anyone have anything that will work?
> > Does this sound like a symptom of a failed hard drive? Along those same
> > lines it looks as if I now have a firewall as the laptop is now mine.
> > Which distro is designed for being a firewall? What do you recommend?
> > Should I get a wireless card for the tower or a wireless router? If I get
> > the router will I need the old comnputer to use as a firewall or not.....
> > hmmmmm.... do I even need a firewall?
> >
> > All advice is appreciated!
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> Personally, I would start by running a Live Distro like DSL on the laptop
> and see if it can access the HD. If so, load the Linux distro of your
> choice on it. If not, well, geeks.com has some smokin' deals on laptop
> drives right now and they're fairly easy to replace.
> You could use a wireless card in the tower to set up an Ad Hoc thing with
> the laptop, but IMHO it would be easier to set up a wireless router with a
> firewall in it. WEP keys with MAC addys are easy and fairly secure. As for
> the rest, I'll leave that to these guys who actually know what they're
> talking about.
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