Bad hard drive...bad, BAD!!

[Icarus]

Now go to RMA and think about what you've done! :mad:

Heh, my hard drive died Friday evening. After booting and I left it at the login screen for a couple hours, when I got back to it it was hung. No problem, reboot and it should be OK (ext3 fs)...nope, "Unrepairable Disk Errors" Lost the whole drive, I wasn't able to mount it to pull anything off this time (second time in 2 months this happened)

So I downloaded the Red Hat beta NULL and it could reformat the partitions. I was able to re-partition it using a Win98 floppy, it took 2 trys to get this to take...

Then I was able to load NULL onto it just fine. Yay, it took ok without any problems. Spent part of Saturday night tweaking it. Sunday morning I turn it on and I see a familuar fsck error on bad clusters..."Unrepairable Disk Errors" :)

So, I'm going to RMA this with Western Digital (less then 1 year old) a 30gb 7200rpm ata/100 drive :(
In the mean time I got a good deal on a Seagate 60gb 5200rpm ata/100 drive for $85 (after tax ;))

No reason for this post other then, dang drive lost all my stuff :(

[mychl]

I hear ya brother.... but sometimes it's good to start fresh....:)

[Icarus]

Ya, NULL is defently an insteresting build for Red Hat...The default theme is very bland (nice background pictures though), and the program menu is an odd mixture of KDE and Gnome...half the apps I use don't get added because of this mix.

I don't see why the KDE people are whining so much about it, the Gnome people should be just as angry IMO...