[clug-talk] Dying Harddrive

[Hendrik Schaink]

If you can access the 'net, go to www.grc.com and purchase his SpinRite
software. Most likely, SpinRite will enable you to make a full copy of
your current hard drive to a new one. Then you update grub and mount the
new drive as your primary and you're back into computing "heaven" ;-) .
If you'r prefer me to do all that on your behalf, contact me off-list.

Hendrik Schaink


Gerald Perkins wrote:
> I've a old Dell Optiplex GX1 which I've been using for web serving for about
> 5 years now.  I installed RedHat (sorry), PHP and MySQL at that time and the
> machine has ticked along brilliantly since then.  I could be the
> advertisement for why even idiots can really install and use Linux.  I
> totally acknowledge my ignorance on the hardware and OS side of things.  The
> disk is dying and at the instruction of the OS when it rebooted a month or
> so ago, I got bad blocks tagged and the system working.  It's getting worse
> and I now can't connect with Gnome which I was using as my interface.  What
> I need is HELP.  Could anyone please give me the name of a tech' who can
> install a new harddrive and get me back up and running?  Ideally, someone
> not overly expensive who can put up with my complete ignorance without
> resorting to violence.  I've checked on Craigslist and only get PC related
> support tech's.  Linux tech's are hiding.

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