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. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 1: Microsoft Works
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