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. ---- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
