Ah, now I understand. This same utility saved all the data on my 1TB drive only a couple of weeks back. It's unwell, very unwell!
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:03 PM, alan c <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/11/11 16:43, Colin Law wrote: > > On 12 November 2011 16:31, alan c <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yesterday I spent time with someone who was interested in using > >> Ubuntu. The Live CD ran well in her laptop. However, the live session > >> disc utility showed some errors, numerically apparently quite a lot. I > >> discussed her considering a new drive, but anyway helped her back up > >> some files..... > > > > When you say it showed some errors, are you talking about SMART errors > or what? > > Yes, sorry, I was too vague, SMART errors. > I explained to her at the time that we were not looking at her > Windows, and this was information from the drive itself. And then > later her son connected remotely, to Windows presumably, looked at the > file system, saw nothing untoward, and rubbished Ubuntu. That 'NTFS' > drivers was mentioned suggests to me that he was mistakenly looking > at the file system, not SMART information. > > I have always found the Ubuntu disc utility to be reliable, and checks > ot fairly well with a seagate tool I have too. Any other experiences? > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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