So it has a CD drive? Burn yourself a Knoppix CD. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/ Yeah, the site's in German, but there are some US mirrors. Knoppix is a Linux distro that boots entirely off the CD, and lives entirely in a ramdisk once booted. Doesn't even need a hard drive. The Linux version of fdisk doesn't make you type in partition names, it shows a list of numbered partitions and you pick a number. If you don't know how to work fdisk in Linux I can help you. Knoppix is absolutely great for doing system recovery, among other things.