Author: Armand Date: Subject: False Alarm - Was Caution, SuSE Linux Live Eval loading
Brian Cluff wrote: >
> Ok... I have since installed the same Eval CD on the same machine 2 more
> times doing the same exact things as the time that is appeard to kill my
> hard drive with no ill effects what so ever. I believe in reality what
> killed the drive was windows itself on a bad shutdown with a little help
> from me hitting the power during a write :)
> I believe that I can now highly recommed that whoever has the SuSE Live Eval
> cd, go ahead and give it a try. It is a excelent install and everything
> appears to just work right off the bat. I think I'm gonna carry this thing
> around just in case I ever get stuck using someones windows install for long
> periods of time. This way I can have something decent to work on that is
> mine :)
>
> I hope that I didn't cause anyone any undo scares with me jumping the gun on
> reporting a bad disk
>
> Brian Cluff
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