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Hi, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum to be posting this in, please move it or tell me if there's a better place... A colleague of mine has an academic website that he'd like to distribute/archive on CD. I offered to help, thinking that it would be a simple matter of just copying...

Wow Kloud, that's awesome! How is the laptop with XP? Does it feel significantly faster? I have to admit I'm a bit conflicted, and for such shallow reasons... Vista is undeniably cool looking, and I'll miss stuff like the new search, but I can't really argue with the stability and speed of XP...

Thanks for the advice! Rubican, I was about to refer you to the Slickdeals discussion about this laptop, but then I saw you were already there :) I reinstalled Vista from the included disc, and it's definitely a lot faster without all the Gateway stuff clogging it up... I can't really deal with...

Hi, I have a Gateway MT3705 laptop, purchased yesterday at Best Buy, which came with Vista preloaded. I played around with it a lot yesterday, but I came to the conclusion that Vista just isn't solid enough for my needs yet (though the eye candy is definitely cool!). So I want to go back to XP...

Thanks vacunita, I followed those instructions and got it all set! Thanks very much! Allen

Great, going to try that right now...

Hi again, I have a new problem actually, and ironically it's just about the opposite of what I was dealing with a couple days ago. Now it's my mom's laptop that is broken, and I'm trying to recover her data off of it, instead of deleting it... The laptop is totally dead... she dropped it and...

Thanks everyone for all your replies and ideas! I ended up finding a local repair shop that managed to get those screws out... and didn't charge me a dime, which was really nice of them. So anyway, all is ending well, as I'm wiping the drive right now with Eraser... Anyway, I feel a lot better...

I really wish I could hook it up to another pc, but the drive is in this weird extra metal casing, that prevents me from plugging it in to anything except the special plug inside the laptop itself. I may be reduced to crossing my fingers and checking Youtube every 15 seconds... ugh.

Thanks hpwizzard, your post is very helpful! Umm, the data in question is not exactly trade secrets, actually it's multimedia of an embarrassing/personal nature. So I'm not so much worried that the information will leak to a competitor, but more just that anyone would see these multimedia...

Hi, sorry if this post is miscategorized, I'm not really sure what forum it best fits in... My basic question is this: If I have some very sensitive data on a laptop hard drive being sent in to Compaq for repairs, how worried should I be about that data getting read by a worker at the repair...