Re: OT: Recovering an NTFS drive

On Sep 30, 5:42 pm, "Jeremiah Harbottle"
<nik...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
4) Which distro of Linux do you recommend? I'm getting too old for
all this windows crap. (And do you Linux guys who need to use Windows
for .net/etc work tend to dual boot, or use some sort of virtual
environment to use XP?)

If you can't handle windows you won't be able to handle Linux. If your
problem is hardware, which is possible, as I've hard dodgy SATA hard drives
throw a wobbly, you're blaming windows for the sake of it.

I've been `handling` Windows for over 10 years. What I can't handle
is booting from the XP CD to get the repair console up, and having it
simply reboot part way through loading up, and taking out one of my
drives. That's hardly blaming Windows for the sake of it. This isn't
the only reason I want to give Linux a go - I've been urged to do so
for years and have resisted partly out of stubborn laziness, and
partly because when I've tried in the past I couldn't get online
because apparantly you can't use USB broadband modems (specifically
the Thompson speedtouch 330 which comes free with some UK ISPs).
Also, I had a nice 3d card a few years ago which wasn't supported
properly (or at least, I couldn't get it working properly). I don't
care about 3d now, and I don't mind stumping up £60 or whatever on an
ethernet card/router if it will help. I've had several other recent
problems with Microsoft where the way you're expected to resolve them
simply isn't good enough - this particular problem is just the last
straw. Most of the data on the disk was backed up so I've not lost
anything vital. I just don't need this any more!


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