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Entry title: Hard Disk Failure.
Date added:  Thursday, May 4 2006, 07:21AM
Written by:  Agilo (agilo3@gmail.com)
Entry ID:    199
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Well, it seems my premonition was well-placed.

Gentoo has been running very unstable the last four days (constantly crashing
and locking up) and I was unable to fix it.
I've tried installing a newer kernel (I was running an older one, I though
that might have been the problem), I've tried running fsck and I've looked at
every other possible cause to the problem.

Suspecting it was a hard disk issue, I started making backups from the data
off the disk which led to the conclusion that it was indeed my hard disk
(Windows would constantly crash when trying to copy certain files off the
disk).

I've salvaged what there is to save but I (reluctantly) had to leave stuff
behind (DVD's and such) due to lack of space on the backup drives.

This has one upside, of course, which is that I am now able to finally switch
my main OS.

Installing (or buying) Mac OS X is no option because I feel it's not mature
enough on native x86 hardware (besides their intel Mac's) and lack of funds to
buy the hardware from Apple itself.
Installing Solaris is out of the question as well (it's a very nice OS, but it
should be run on SPARC and isn't qualified to run as my main OS -- in my
opinion).

Unless I find anything else which intrigues me enough to install it, I may end
up installing some *BSD or I may just install Gentoo again (I know, I know,
but the thing is; I want to see if it changes much from having had it for two
years and installing it freshly).

Either way; I first need to find/buy a new hard disk, until then, I'm stuck
with my dual-boot: Windows XP (urgh).


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