[olug] hard drive question

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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:29 PM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:

> If the bios supports booting from usb
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:22:24
> To: <Rob.Townley at gmail.com>; Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] hard drive question
>
>
> Rob Townley wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Kelly Williams<kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I was at my local college I plugged in my external hd its maxtor one
> >> touch 120 in there computer it allows me to view files but it will not
> >> let me copy to the hard drive. I tried another computer on there network
> >> and still blocks the drive from being written to. but when I use my
> >> computer at home I have full control of the drive. In the past i have
> >> been known to download a lot of stuff off the internet and i would use
> >> that drive to save all that stuff. I was all opensource software. but
> >> the network admin is anti opensource everything is Windows on there
> >> network. i'm wondering if they have it that my profile is setup to not
> >> except that drive. But I can use my flashdrives. I just looking for some
> >> ideas what it could be.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kelly Williams
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> >
> > This may go against their rules, but the idea of a university is to be
> > open and inclusive.  Boot their PC up with a Linux LiveCD and copy
> > what you want to a temp folder, then reboot into windows to copy to a
> > network share.  Let us know if they block particular drives.  Could
> > the external drive have a virus?
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> But I was able to do this for 2 years. but I like your idea for using
> LiveCD. I guess I will have to carry puppy with me all the time. Also is
> there a way i could install puppy to a old flash drive because I ounce
> left my flash drive on the computer and it wanted to boot from it.
>
>
> Kelly Williams
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