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.


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Neil Bothwick

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