Please help me? I have a Dell laptop, Windows XP Home Edition, model PP12L. I was on Facebook, I think, when I got a hard drive error and the screen went black. I went to MRU and started the topic Laptop won't boot. There, Gary helped me to make a bootable Puppy Linux CD. I was able to boot with it, but when I tried to back up from the sda1 drive onto a USB stick, the sda1 drive wouldn't mount and open. I got an error:
Pmount Puppy Drive Mounter
Error: unable to mount sda1
I was able to get sbd1 and sr0 to mount and open. Gary thought that perhaps there is a hardware problem and refered me to this forum.