Bad Sector Bonanza

MadmanRB · 01-16-2016, 06:29 PM

So pulled this out of my fathers laptop, he was having boot issues and its no wonder if gnome disks is to be believed:

http://i.imgur.com/ZCdxZ05.png

Dare I say it?

Do I have to say it?

Okay I will say it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

ardvark71 · 01-16-2016, 08:24 PM

Brr!

B--> Backup

R--> Replace

R--> Reinstall

Hopefully, your father has a restore CD. If not, perhaps one can be made from the system's restore utilities, if it's a brand name computer...

Regards...

MadmanRB · 01-17-2016, 02:14 PM

Its all good, he got a new harddrive and everything was backed up.
Though he did dump windows now

ardvark71 · 01-17-2016, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MadmanRB

Though he did dump windows now

Ah, ok. How's he liking Linux?

Regards...

MadmanRB · 01-17-2016, 08:16 PM

He likes it fine, he was using linux for a while beforehand and only used windows again when he got his newer laptop that came with windows 8.1 and dualbooted up till his hard drive stopped working

ardvark71 · 01-17-2016, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MadmanRB

He likes it fine, he was using linux for a while beforehand and only used windows again when he got his newer laptop that came with windows 8.1 and dualbooted up till his hard drive stopped working

Right on.

MadmanRB · 01-19-2016, 04:45 AM

Ironically enough this does make me the only person in my apartment unit to still use Windows, My moms got a chromebook, my dads gone full linux, me I still dualboot.
Mainly for gaming though, I actually have one hell of a gaming rig on my hands