On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 08:52, LLLActive wrote: > ignorance in linking shut-downs with "causing severe hard drive damage, > resulting in the purchase of several new hard drives",
To be fair to the OP, improper shut downs can damage the hard drive. However, for every time that occurs, there are probably a million times where it was the file system that got destroyed. > highly probable M$ non-journalling FS crash can only be smiled at. a) A couple of years ago, a tax program for Windows, for US taxes, would trash the file system, such that the hard drive could not be reformatted using anything from Microsoft. The "fix: was to install Linux on that drive, and then Windows. (You lost your data, which wasn't an acceptable solution for the company I was working at back then.) b) There is something in the Windows OS, that prevents a hard drive from being read, if it has changed its position in the drive sequence. Simply installing a second internal hard drive, can be enough of a change, for Windows to decide that the first drive is unusable. Whilst not a result of downloading something, it can appear as if the first hard drive has physical, internal damage, and not just a stupid OS issue. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
