On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:12:57 -0400, NotNow wrote:



No days most install disks are simply a partition on the hard drive. Oh
and Harry's bull**** about the card likely not bombing the OS is
horse****. Hell, I've seen a defective thumb drive trash the OS before.

I roll my own. Putting install software on a partition isn't a good
idea unless they include instructions to write it to a CD/DVD.
Hard drives fail.
Don't know much about ethernet chips, but OS's do fail for never
determined reasons. Likely glitches that corrupt a file.
I never get into that anymore because of my cloning strategy.
Problem with OS? Restore from image.
That would have told the tale for your son. If it didn't work you'd
know you had a hardware problem, no ifs ands or buts.

--Vic