Preserved Thoughts

I'll finally break my long silence. Last week my Windows XP has crashed and that made me busy trying to revive it hoping it will go back to normal. Unfortunately I failed. Or I guess I never tried hard to fix it.

But, on the other side, it gave me the opportunity to force my self(and my wife and brother-in-law) to learn to be comfortable in using Ubuntu Linux as our primary desktop OS. What I did was, I pulled out my extra IDE harddisk from my spare CPU which I bought for only P500.

I then installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on it planning to make the SATA harddisk which contains the Windows XP as a slave disk so I can can just mount it under the linux OS and retrieve the important documents from it. But this attempt has also failed. Ubuntu 8.04 just can't detect my SATA harddisk.

I've searched the solution over the net and found that I am not the only one having this kind of problem. I've tried some suggestions from different forums but I still haven't got it working.

Can you read this ? I could.

Eonverye taht can raed tihs rsaie yuor hnad.

To my 'selected' strange-minded friends:

If you can read the following paragraph,
forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you
with 'yes' in the subject line.

Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres
in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat
ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!