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Started by ForestCreature, Nov 27, 2005, 07:31 PM

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ForestCreature


 I'm sitting  at the puter this AM and it locks up
:mad:
 We had the day planned to go play at Cabelas today so the puter had to wait. (great time at Cabelas) Gat home, boot up and nothing...just a bunch of BS about missing system files.....do a little more poking around and NO Hard Drive :swear::(. So tomorrow I get to go HD shopping at Micro Center.
 
 This HD is only a little less than 2 yrs old, and out of warranty of course... guess the next HD will not be a Maxtor.
 
 
 
 Right now I'm using my computer without a HD!!  There is a neat free program called Knoppix that anyone can download. It's a Linux OS that runs off CD....very coool!!! Lucky for me my son had a disc with this on it just hanging around.
 
 I just may poke around it and see if  I can get used to it and kiss windows goodbye!!
 
 
 
 

brainpause

Sorry about your trouble, Marcy. I had always heard Maxtor drives were good. Maybe things are changing, or maybe you are just unlucky.  :yikes:

Larry

ForestCreature

Unlucky twice, this is the 2nd Maxtor that has seen an early death. Atleast the last one was under warranty.
 It's now a Samsung 200 gig :)    Windows is on, Linux gets loaded tomorrow for the dual boot system.