From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:14:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110724171405.230f646a@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2B1701.4000300@kutulu.org>
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:46:25 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If the hard drive failed to the point that I couldn't
> restore it to factory defaults I suspect they would have a
> hard time telling if I was running Windows or not :)
In that case, true. But there are other failures that would not affect
the hard drive directly but would prevent you restoring it (without
removing the drive which may invalidate the warranty).
I'm not saying don't do it, I do it myself, but it is not a certain way
of avoiding warranty problems.
--
Neil Bothwick
How do I set my laser printer to stun?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-24 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 1:53 [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused CJoeB
2011-07-23 2:27 ` William Kenworthy
2011-07-23 3:07 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-23 13:28 ` CJoeB
2011-07-23 15:11 ` Mick
2011-07-23 20:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-07-23 22:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-07-23 22:58 ` CJoeB
2011-07-23 6:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-23 11:47 ` Mick
2011-07-23 14:55 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-23 16:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-23 17:35 ` Mick
2011-07-23 22:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-23 18:46 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-24 16:14 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-07-23 12:31 ` Philip Webb
2011-07-23 15:06 ` Allan Gottlieb
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