OH SHI-

In an attempt to upgrade from xp home edition to professional... my computer stops all activity except for the mouse and the keyboard. (Reason why im upgrading instead of formatting is because I need the files on my windows partition). If theres a way of recovering these files and just use linux from now on or even better if there is a suggestion for what to do to keep the computer doing what it does during setup itd be much appreciated.

www.linux.com

How do I backed up my files and installed Linux?

(no, lunix is that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix)

easiest thing to do is buy an new hard drive install linux on it and copy files from windows drive.

ive already got linux on this

>>4 then return the drive
addendum added for dishonesty

>>6
i lol'd

take the files on dvd, or better restore the last known good-working configuration of windows XP

>>7
I cant do that because it no longers asks XP home edition or Professional edition setup.

wait. how would i go about doing a LAN install?

mkdir /mnt/zawarudo ~/zawarudo
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/zawarudo
cp /mnt/zawarudo/*  ~/zawarudo
umount /dev/hda1
man fdisk

apt-get vampire stance

put in another harddrive that works and use it to run windows, save your files, format, ???, Profit!

>>12
done that... thanks

>>13
you fail. gtfo.