
However, the file manager in Mini Windows XP did not seem to detect any onboard hard drive, so I grabbed my old USB stick I made with bootable Linux Mint which I'd used to move files to an external drive off my previous laptop last year.Īfter Linux loaded, the screen had a strange shimmery effect as if running water were being poured over it, but was readable so I proceeded. I initially tried this with the "Mini Windows XP" from a USB stick I made with Hiren's Bootable CD.

Haha, funny you should mention that the next thing I had tried after the last test was just getting a copy of all my personal files off, just in case.
