so yesterday my 3 year old compaq laptop decided that it was its own computer and it didnt need no stinking operating system. so it proceeded to erase windows from itself. but ti wasnt done there. oh no, not by any means. next it felt like, you know what? my motherboard doesnt really need to communicate with any of the drives, so lets just go ahead and unrecognize those nasty little connections................so i am left with a laptop with no opperating system and no means for putting a new one on. good, great, grand. who needs a laptop anyway when their computer lab is on the other side of campus, no where near any other buildings of intrest?