Uses for laptop without hard drive?

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clopper

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I have an old laptop which cannot recognize the hard drive (hardware problem) but is perfect otherwise. I dont want to throw it away but can't think of a thing to use it for other than knoppix or other linux ware but I want to use it to blackhat. Any ideas of how to utilize this machine?
 
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Depending on make and model, you may find that there is a market for the pc as spares...even down to flogging the keys!!

Can't think of any productive use without a hard drive to be honest...will an external drive work instead?
 
Can it recognise flash or pen drives? or even an external usb hard drive?
 
well: you could buy a hard drive, and put it in there (wouldn't cost much)
or, you could use a live cd. there are windows 7 live cds, there's basically live cds for every os, just need to find it.

thing is, you can't save anything
 
bios won't recognize a usb boot
 
Well that just leaves
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or
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Then write an ebook on 101 uses for a dead laptop and
make enough money to buy a new one.
 
oxon, its emarrassing but when I was 16 I had like 5 486 dx2 66mhz comps with 32megs of ram and 540meg hd's as fileservers. Almost 2 gig or about 1/16th the size of my current usb pendrive. I might bust them out for stools because of that pic.
 
clopper said:
oxon, its emarrassing but when I was 16 I had like 5 486 dx2 66mhz comps with 32megs of ram and 540meg hd's as fileservers. Almost 2 gig or about 1/16th the size of my current usb pendrive. I might bust them out for stools because of that pic.
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My first proper pc was a 386sx when I upgraded to a 486dx the guy told me
this was the fastest computers would ever get and I'd never need to buy another one again.
 
oxonbeef said:
My first proper pc was a 386sx when I upgraded to a 486dx the guy told me
this was the fastest computers would ever get and I'd never need to buy another one again.
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If I was an old lady and only wanted internet service for email or browsing news sites text only I would still be using that computer today.
 
use it as an extra screen or even just as a workstation. Workstation don't need to have a hard disk as they run directly from server. So you can have another of your computer work as a server and your laptop as workstation.
 
clopper said:
If I was an old lady and only wanted internet service for email or browsing news sites text only I would still be using that computer today.
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Windows 5.1 FTW! it all started to go wrong after windows for workgroups.
 
I sold it on ebay, the f*cker returned it saying the as is auction was too hard to read when it said hard drive unresponsive. Now I just want to keep it and bh with it if possible.
 
you should still be able to netboot it

http://netboot.sourceforge.net/english/index.shtml
 
sell on ebay

i've sold 5 broken laptops on ebay

if the screen works, lots of guys buy them and fix them

just describe its broken state adequately
 
just sell it and then buy a new laptop by adding some money to to the money you have got.
 
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