My hard drive a few weeks ago started making this awful grinding noise. Its replacement showed up in the mail the other day, so I went about installing windows and linux.
The Windows installation was from the restore cd that came with my dell, which is two and a half years old now. The installation took (just windows and updates, no apps):
2 hours
6 reboots
83 windows updates
3 message boxes telling me to go to some website because otherwise...
