Well, you weren't there when the disks went wrong, but i was. And i am
convinced that installing/reinstalling GRUB/LILO on the MBR blew off the hdd.
Let me share another instance, a recent one. i copied some data in a pendrive,
unmounted the drive, all went fine. But later on when i opened the pendive
there was no data! directories were there, but no data.
Mistake, could be, but as i am not an it person, but i carefully read every
instructions on-board and understand them.
you are right, data loss and recovery are best in Linux.
Actually i am not criticizing Lin, but you know since i like it so much, we
don;t like to see failures in our favorites.
Finally, i still have some "but" about this issue.
regds
Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 14, 2007
3:13 PM, russell kabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After started using linux, i lost two hard disks for no good reason.
> First time it was about installing GRUB/LILO on the MBR, and the disk
> crashed.
>
At least I don`t believe that, your hard disk crashed for loading grub in
your disk; obviously, you made some mistake!!
> Second time it was for no reason my hdd failed to mount, forever gone.
>
You cannot blame linux if you have problem with your own hard disk. And, i
am definitely sure that, you had a defective hard disk at that time. And,
actually, if your hard disk decides to crash, it don`t care about which OS
you are using.
>
> If these types of facts keep surfacing the popularity of linux for desktop
> users may become at shambles.
>
I have been with linux for 5 years. And, not a single data of my any hard
disk ( pcs+laptop) went off for linux. Plus, i helped a lot of my friends to
work with linux; it may be 100+; and i haven`t seen any tears in their eyes
for their data loss.
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Best,
Z
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