Can I assume you're trying to boot to the drive because windows is giving you static about protected directories? If your mom's laptop is cranky about booting to a USB device, you can also do what I did as a backup plan. Go to Ubuntu's site and download their ISO and burn it to a disk. That allows you to boot from the CD-Rom into Ubuntu (without installing anything). Ubuntu doesn't give a fig about Windows permissions and you can take any file you want from the USB drive and copy it to your mom's lappy.
You can also just borrow my Ubuntu disk if you need to.
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Date: 2010-04-24 04:41 pm (UTC)Can I assume you're trying to boot to the drive because windows is giving you static about protected directories? If your mom's laptop is cranky about booting to a USB device, you can also do what I did as a backup plan. Go to Ubuntu's site and download their ISO and burn it to a disk. That allows you to boot from the CD-Rom into Ubuntu (without installing anything). Ubuntu doesn't give a fig about Windows permissions and you can take any file you want from the USB drive and copy it to your mom's lappy.
You can also just borrow my Ubuntu disk if you need to.
J.