On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy <kja...@gmail.com>wrote: <Snip>
> When his laptop had a hard disk failure, Ubuntu continued to write data on > the affected sectors. An exhaustive search didn't yield much, and the only > solution was to replace the disk. However, he noted that at least windows > doesn't write new data on the affected sectors, and allows u to block access > to those sectors thus using the remaining space available till one can buy > the new hard disk. > > Anyway, lets all agree that most people (non-IT guys like me) came in for > the "free" (as in money) tag. Unfortunately, most of them do not understand > or even care about the FOSS logic. They are genuinely happy if their work > gets done. Hence, the onus is on the community to a develop something that > appeases all. This is exactly what the community is delivering. There will > be cases of people who might not stick on..why bother? Lets live the way we > want to... :) > Just curious - was the SMART data on the HDD enabled in BIOS. That would have given Ubuntu info about the hard disk failing. It did in my system. Thats when i bought a portable HDD. Regards Narendra Diwate
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