[wilson1973]

My mates pc is knackered im thinking the best thing to do will load a copy of ubuntu on to it to wipe xp,as the xp will no longer work and probably isnt even licensed she has no back up discs etc.She is happy for her pc to be wiped but has lots of documents on it in ms word that she needs to college im not sure about the best way to save these but ti though if she could burn them to a cd maybe she would be able to open them if she downloads openoffice after installing ubuntu,but im not sure if it would recognise the word documents,can anyone help

[arochester]

if she downloads openoffice after installing ubuntu

CAUTION!: If you are going to install Ubuntu on the whole disk everything already on it will be wiped out!

If XP is really not working then the best way to save anything on the disk is with a Linux LiveCD. I recommend Knoppix. You should save everything you can BEFORE installing Ubuntu.