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On Saturday, 5 June 2021 03:10:10 BST Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:04:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for |
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> > > |
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> > > several days under Windows, just in case there are any early problems. |
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> > > After that, it goes Gentoo. |
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> > I always boot system rescue and dd the entries drive to somewhere safe. |
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> > That way I restore the original setup in the case of a warranty claim - |
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> > unless the failure is that bad that I can't boot or access the disk. |
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> a) The drive is one terabyte in size. |
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> b) Yes, Mr. Dell Support, I bought the machine 6 months ago and I've |
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> been websurfing, Youtubing, etc ever since. And Windows Home has not |
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> forced an update all that time. |
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The drive may be 1TB, but the data on it must be significantly less. |
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Clonezilla can copy and compress the data into a backup image for later |
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restoration, should a claim against warranty arise. |
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Whether a MSWindows Update took place or not, or indeed whether the OS was |
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even initialised or not (first run), is pretty much immaterial, as long as the |
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failure is related to hardware and data can be provided to this effect. I've |
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returned a PC because smartmontools showed an imminent disk failure and |
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another because it failed an overnight run of memtest86+. |
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