On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:45 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
This evening I removed the HD and installed the brand new hard
drive.
The
machine now readily booted to a PartedMagic LiveCD and I was able to
partition the drive to prepare for an f11 clean install which I have
now
just completed.
So in this case it turned out to be a total failure of the hard drive
- the
machine is less than 2 years old, so a drive failure at this age is
surprising, the more so considering it has always been on a UPS to
protect
the mains supplying it. The new HD is a different make to the
original, and
hopefully will last a little longer than the previous one! Anyway I am
very
glad that this turned out to be unrelated to the operating system,
although
I am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened to the other
machine
- which was clearly a software issue.
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hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have become
unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties them
beyond a year now.
Craig
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