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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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