From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ql1Km-0007nX-49 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:15:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E219721C23B; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F1A21C25D for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07B04804AF for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:14:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:14:05 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused Message-ID: <20110724171405.230f646a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E2B1701.4000300@kutulu.org> References: <4E2A297D.4070709@gmail.com> <4E2A6966.2020409@kutulu.org> <201107231247.27328.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E2AE0CF.4040408@kutulu.org> <20110723174953.22865896@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4E2B1701.4000300@kutulu.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs36 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/4n2110A8nnez2cNKtqAOfhd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 36b3bd6c0fed7b832ffa9d2b1ba04297 --Sig_/4n2110A8nnez2cNKtqAOfhd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =20 >=20 > If the hard drive failed to the point that I couldn't=20 > restore it to factory defaults I suspect they would have a=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick How do I set my laser printer to stun? --Sig_/4n2110A8nnez2cNKtqAOfhd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4sRM0ACgkQum4al0N1GQMWEgCgs2D0EucvCkYc9rzvT424GHwh 6FMAn10iI8LbsH31LPJLvBBpFznmIm3b =7jHF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/4n2110A8nnez2cNKtqAOfhd--