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Re: [LUG] Writing data to a disconnected laptop hard drive

 

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:23:24 +0000
Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's good that Robin will be able to help.  It's so frustrating when 
> these things go wrong.  I wonder if HP will require you to reinstall 
> Windows for them to repair it.  Hopefully not!

They can ask but the laptop came with no Windows CD/DVD - I was
expected to want Windows so much that I would be prepared to not only
buy my own DVD-R media but also to spend time with my new machine
waiting for Windows to burn itself to a DVD. (I gained this knowledge
from reading the manual two weeks *after* I had wiped the entire hard
drive by installing Mepis, then Debian.)
:-)

If this laptop ever gets back to HP, it will have an entirely blank
ext2 filesystem across the entire 250Gb drive.

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