Thanks for the offer - someone has contacted us with a Linux CD they can lend us. I'm in the State Plaza hotel at the moment, in the North tower. I'll try to log on to IRC soonish. I'm TheCavalry on there. We can't make it to WLL due to health issues, but we'll be around later in the afternoon :-)

Richard Symonds

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On 11 July 2012 15:21, Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has
> failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run
> system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing
> has been successful!
>
> Does anyone have a spare CD which we could boot up the laptop from, or any
> suggestions as to what we could do next? Everything else on the laptop is in
> working order.

Can you get on IRC? (#wikimania ; I'm jeremyb there) or where are you?
if you happen to be in Wikipedia Loves Libraries (Gelman Lib rm 702) I
can try to help. otherwise maybe ~9 or 9:30 at dupont circle hotel?

-Jeremy

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