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post #16 of 17
3/16/10 at 7:09pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude View Post
You may also want to retitle the thread so Vista doesn't take the rap for a hardware failure.
This is taking way too much of my time, but I've been playing with Ubuntu. Booting from Ubuntu Live CD, the computer was still not able to access the hard drive.

I tried installing Ubuntu onto the "bad" hard drive, and the install went smoothly! I'm typing from Linux at this moment. However, when I use the Linux disk utility, it shows that this "Disk has a few bad sectors."

This makes me wonder about "Chicken or the Egg." Did Vista crashing cause the few sector errors, or the failing hard drive cause Vista to crash..? The "bad" hard drive is doing great under Linux, installing and running everything I throw at it.
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post #17 of 17
3/21/10 at 3:30am
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After more experimenting, it's looking like it wasn't hard drive's fault after all. The "bad" drive, after formatting, is checking out fine on Checkdisk and has run Linux and Vista just fine after fresh installs.

At any rate, I now have Windows 7 Ultimate installed, and along with Google Chrome, I'm seeing some very impressive speeds, just as fast as Ubunta with Firefox (which is optimized for Linux I understand).
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