(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[Rick Bowers]

At 9/19/2007 10:41 PM, you wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I needed some more disk space to install SuSE 10.1, so I used the 
>>>utility on the SuSE install DVD to shrink the Linux partition in 
>>>front of it (Fedora 7 - hda7).  The shrink function worked nicely; 
>>>my Fedora 7 install was not damaged.
>>>
>>>However, when I tried booting into Win XP (on hda1) I got the 
>>>startup error screen.  I had to run the repair installation 
>>>routine, during which I had to hunt down the mobo driver 
>>>CD.  Fortunately, the restore worked, and it did not overwrite the MBR.
>>>
>>>Be warned.
>>>
>>
>>That's not as bad as my booting a CentOS 5 CD to test an interactive
>>kickstart configuration file, expecting that it would allow me to abort the
>>installation before writing anything to the hard drive.  Wrong!  I not only
>>removed all partitions from the internal hard drive, it cleaned off an
>>external USB drive as well.
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>Reminds me of the time I wiped out my Caldera eDesk 2.4 install 
>while setting up XCDRoast.
>Any other tales of mayhem and mutilation?
>
>--
>Leon A. Goldstein

Yes, sadly. I had about 10 years of programs, email, personal files, 
etc. on several hard drives. Some of the 60GB and 80BG drives started 
showing signs of problems, so I bought a 250GB drive and started 
MOVING all my files to the 250BG drive. Just as I finished moving all 
the files off the original drives, the 250GB drive crashed. Bye-bye 
files. The drive was non-recoverable.

Another time I had backuped up my work laptop computer to an external 
USB drive. It had 10 years of files; presentations, sample data, email, etc.
I left that company (not by choice) and stored the drive. Two years 
later, the assets of that company were acquired and I went to work 
for the new company.  None of the old stuff had been transferred over 
(or, apparently, preserved) so I took out my backup. It won't spin 
up. Period. So all that data is sitting on a dead drive. Now I need 
to recreate everything from scratch, where possible. I won't be 
buying any more Western Digital drives...

~Rick


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