Computer guru's, need help

[Caithford]

This might be a stupid question... but where the hell do I go to get the free live cd? All of the places that I have tried so far want to install a bunch of other crap along with the supposed live cd software...

Try UBCD 4 Win (http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm). It's free, but it does require you to put it together.

You can also try the UBCD which has a lot of testing utilities, but it's text based and can be challenging (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) to use if you're not familiar with the nitty gritty, or have some command line or Linux experience.

My favorite right now for ease of use is Hiren's boot CD. Comes with a crap-ton of free recovery utilities, you can download the ISO, so you don't have to build it, and it works on most machines out of the box (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd).

Good luck.

[spyder]

Try UBCD 4 Win (http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm). It's free, but it does require you to put it together.

You can also try the UBCD which has a lot of testing utilities, but it's text based and can be challenging (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) to use if you're not familiar with the nitty gritty, or have some command line or Linux experience.

My favorite right now for ease of use is Hiren's boot CD. Comes with a crap-ton of free recovery utilities, you can download the ISO, so you don't have to build it, and it works on most machines out of the box (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd).

Good luck.

It says that I need an XP CD... Should I even try to run my computer off of XP? I guess it really doesn't matter anyway considering that I don't have an XP CD....