What would you do with this computer?

Question

I have an Acer with a hard drive that needs to be reformatted. In fact it wont even start up. I have no recovery disk or anything to reformat it. The best I can think of is to hook it up to one of my other computers and reformat it. How ever I have no operating system to install on it. That being the case I was thinking about turning it into a linux server. I was hoping to run game servers on it, but I'm afraid that the game servers would be limited. So what would you do, turn it into a server or just try to salvage some parts?

Answer 1

I'd say go ahead with the Linux plan. If not a server, make a desktop out of it.you could also boot via a Linux Live CD.. Ubuntu lets you burn one..

What have you got to loose?? It has to be easier & cheaper than trying to dispose it off ;-)