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On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 17:49:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> > I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing |
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> > I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo, |
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> > only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I |
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> > could not run the standard Windows diagnostics they couldn't |
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> > (wouldn't?) help me. |
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> > So I booted the restore CD, put Windows back, and got a new |
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> > NIC within about a week. |
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> What would you have done if the hard drive had failed? |
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> I always image the windows disk and then wipe it, but I'm aware that |
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> this is not completely reliable. some failures make restoration |
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> impossible. |
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Yes, that's why I usually install Gentoo as a dual boot on a new machine. |
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On the other hand, if the drive is dead what is Dell/HP/etc going to do? Take |
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it apart and run forensics on the platters? O_O |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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