I’ve been booting into my Ubuntu Linux installation on a daily basis so far. The USB appears to still be screwy even after installating the XP Serivce Pack 3, so the cause can be anything. It appears to be working fine in Linux, so it’s either a robust driver set in Linux, or windows is suddenly very picky.

After a quick search in the forums, I apparently found a way to fix the problem I had earlier, and boot into the GUI, which is a god-send. Without the GUI and a strong foundation of the terminal, a noob can easily be overwhelmed.

So, just booting into the recovery mode and fixing one of the configuration files, I got back to the old familar and in time, and a reboot later, everything was back to normal.

Looking back, the USB problem is probably the push I needed to start using Linux seriously. I still can’t get Warcraft 3 to work properly for network games though. That’s still what’s making me boot back into windows.

I’ve even installed Miro in Linux, which should be a good thing. ;p