On Monday April 21 2008 14:33:04 Dan Kegel wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Primus <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > BTW: My main disk is 5-8 years old the other is around 5 years old (are > > they too old?) > > Probably. Better get a new disk and do a fresh install of Linux on it, > then copy your user data files from the old ones. Otherwise you're > asking for total data loss... Well, there are definitely no reason to do fresh install of Linux if old installation isn't completely destroyed (BTW, most packages reinstall themselves during each distro-upgrade). What about possibility of data loss, if someone care about this he/she definitely is doing regular backups of whole system and at least daily backup of his/her current work (if not, new hard drives will not help anyway; without backups you lose everything sooner or later).