linux questions

[xteraco]

i'll start w/ a little story, so you know wher i'm coming from

today, i was browsing the web, and my antivir started flashin all kinds of virus messages, and i selected deleted, adn closed my browser (this is all in windows btw)... i used my computer for a while, and didnt notice any slowdown.. then after a while, my system started to slow down drastidally... then eventualy it totally froze up... i hit reset, and when my computer was booting up, it gave me a message that read something like

"invalid disk error"

the computer wouldnt boot up at all, so i took another hard drive, and put it into the computer and took out my old one, to see if the problem was really the drive.... the new drive that i put in gave me the same error message, and would not boot up... this leads me to believ that the problem is not w/ my drive, and may be w/ the mobo, like maybe a virus in the bios

anyhoo, i'm a regrlar phlak user, but i just use it when i want to brwse the web at work... here's what i'm wanting to do w/ phlak

1.the files on my hdd are very important, my computer wont boot to any hdd, no matter what, but will boot into phlak... the folder i want to bakc up is around 40gigs, so i want to back up to dvd, what i'd like to do, is boot up in phlak, then burn cd's of that dir from phlak! i have 2 cdroms btw... so, my question is this, is there an integrated cd burning program that i could use w/ phlak, or do i have to download something?

2.i downloaded deepburner form www.deepburner.com, and installed it using wine to dir C:\program files\deepburner and now i cant find it at all... i really suck at these linux dir's


pleeease help me!!!
thnx in advance
~xteraco

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

Somehow, you need to drain all the power in the computer - capacitors and all, then reset the computer. You should boot up normally, but if you want to avoid that, get a cheap computer and stick the drive with all your files in it...

[xteraco]

hmm, well, i did use the cmos reset jumper, but that didnt fix my problem... all the cap's huh, that'd be alot of work..lol, i've been looking into a new motherboard tho...