On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 17:49:53 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.
Yes, that's why I usually install Gentoo as a dual boot on a new machine. On the other hand, if the drive is dead what is Dell/HP/etc going to do? Take it apart and run forensics on the platters? O_O -- Regards, Mick
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