Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

[Mike Edenfield]

On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>
>> I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing
>> I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo,
>> only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I
>> could not run the standard Windows diagnostics they couldn't
>> (wouldn't?) help me.
>>
>> So I booted the restore CD, put Windows back, and got a new
>> NIC within about a week.
>
> What would you have done if the hard drive had failed?
>
> I always image the windows disk and then wipe it, but I'm aware that
> this is not completely reliable. some failures make restoration
> impossible.

If the hard drive failed to the point that I couldn't 
restore it to factory defaults I suspect they would have a 
hard time telling if I was running Windows or not :)