Computer Help and Support

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I have an old Toshiba Sattalite laptop that a friend asked me to look at few years back. I found that it had a damaged boot sector and although I was able to extract some files off of it for him by booting off a USB stick with some utilities I was unable repair windows boot.. He wasn't interested in repairing it and told me to toss it or keep it. I managed to get Fedora Linux running on it despite the bad boot sector and offered him that but he declined. Eventually the drive started throwing more warnings mentioning that it could die at anytime so I cloned the disk to an SSD drive that was a bit bigger and replaced the damaged drive with it. Fedora Linux is Redhats free bleeding edge Linux environment.Although Fedora is really good I have a newer HP laptop running Windows 11 that I can dual boot Linux on and I'm considering installing ChromeOS Flex on the old laptop. ChromeOS boots superfast and it can run Microsoft 365 if you don't want to uses Google Docs or Libre Office.