The thing here is that once you got one CD or even use a Windows program to create a bootable USB... You do not NEED the converter for SATA drives as the files can just stay on the disks you have present. No need to move or pay anything. Just boot it up, clean out one drive using Gparted, and then ...

I got a second hand laptop with two HD and raid. It was just impossible to install anything to this machine as the driver for the raid was not present under even Puppy Linux 5.2.8 or Linux Mint 13 for that sake. Taking the disk out and installing Windows did not work neither, as the drivers for the...

Flash wrote:Which version of Puppy did you try? Newer versions seem to do a very good job of automatically configuring for the hardware.

By the way, just to be sure, is this a laptop we're talking about, or a desktop? And how much RAM is in it?

Dell XPS desktop, 4 GB ram.

Wary Puppy 5.3

Yes, if you're going to replace the hard disk drive anyway, you could go ahead and do it now. That way, there'd be no danger of destroying data on it as you learn how to use Puppy. Having said that, it would be perfectly safe to boot Puppy from a live CD and have a look in the drive while it's stil...

Do you know if the machine will boot from a CD? Yes, I can boot the windows cd, but it is a cheap Dell restore cd, and I don't want to wipe out my files. So I should be able to boot Puppy on a cd. I want to remove the files and then new hard drive and re-install OS. It is actually my wifes system, ...

You are going to need a working Windows computer to set this up along with some CD burning software that can work with "images". Then download a Puppy ISO file. A basic one would be Wary Puppy . I have another computer with CD RW that is working. I was going to download the software Barry...

I have a Dell XPS Gen 5 that has a corrupt OS, can not be booted. I have been looking for a way to access the files and save them onto a CD to transfer to a new system. I was referred to Puppy from a user on the Geeks forum. I was told Puppy might be able to help with my problem and allow me to save...