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 1QkhFd-0002n1-2m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:48:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10EF721C256; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F9E21C176 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD2E7D801C for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:46:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Joa7tW-UvEyt for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:46:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.4] (wombat.kutulu.org [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65CF7D801B for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:46:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E2B1701.4000300@kutulu.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:46:25 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused References: <4E2A297D.4070709@gmail.com> <4E2A6966.2020409@kutulu.org> <201107231247.27328.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E2AE0CF.4040408@kutulu.org> <20110723174953.22865896@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110723174953.22865896@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b7721d0bdfd314e113e2da9948c3c319 On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. 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 :)