i have not been into linux long not even close to long. i have never heard
of a hd going bad after a year. unless you got sold a faulty hd.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drake X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
| I hope it's not a hard drive problem. The system is only about 3 months
| old, although the HD is close to a year old. It's a Maxtor drive. Do you
| know of any way to do a system check? Thanks!
|
| At 07:30 PM 05/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
| >X Drake wrote:
| > >
| > > I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux.
Everything
| > > is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
| > > Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason
the
| > > browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't
close. So
| > > I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the
desktop
| > > icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
| > > normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from
time
| > > to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just
came up
| > > and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
| ><SNIP!>
| >WOW! I've never had any of these problems, it looks like a flaky hard
| >drive,
| >I know Linux is a LOT more particular about it's disk/file conditions.
| >Back
| >when I was using WinLinux 2000 (Linux used as a BIG Windoze file) I
| >would have
| >to run scan disk almost everytime I tried to use WinLinux! But once
| >Linux was
| >sure of it's files and their condition it ran well. I'm sorry to see
| >you go and
| >I still wonder if it is not a hardware problem: heat on the motherboard,
| >bad stick
| >of RAM or again some weirdness with the hard drive. I know windoze is a
| >lot more
| >tolerant of hard drive errors.
| >vern
| >
| >--
| > Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > Hardinsburg, Kentucky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment!
| > Silly hacker, root is for administrators!
|
|
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