If you can access the 'net, go to www.grc.com and purchase his SpinRite software. Most likely, SpinRite will enable you to make a full copy of your current hard drive to a new one. Then you update grub and mount the new drive as your primary and you're back into computing "heaven" ;-) . If you'r prefer me to do all that on your behalf, contact me off-list.
Hendrik Schaink Gerald Perkins wrote: > I've a old Dell Optiplex GX1 which I've been using for web serving for about > 5 years now. I installed RedHat (sorry), PHP and MySQL at that time and the > machine has ticked along brilliantly since then. I could be the > advertisement for why even idiots can really install and use Linux. I > totally acknowledge my ignorance on the hardware and OS side of things. The > disk is dying and at the instruction of the OS when it rebooted a month or > so ago, I got bad blocks tagged and the system working. It's getting worse > and I now can't connect with Gnome which I was using as my interface. What > I need is HELP. Could anyone please give me the name of a tech' who can > install a new harddrive and get me back up and running? Ideally, someone > not overly expensive who can put up with my complete ignorance without > resorting to violence. I've checked on Craigslist and only get PC related > support tech's. Linux tech's are hiding. -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions with Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
