NucleusKore
TheSaint
Hi everybody
After a difficult time with my PC for the past few weeks, I narrowed down the problem to a failing hard disk. This experience taught me that while SMART may say everything is OK, you can still have bad sectors on your hard disk, as diagnosed by the manufacturer's (WD) tool, downloaded from their website. I returned the hard disk for replacement on Monday; guess that puts a lot of my work on hold, or does it?
I have always used pendrive linux as a data recovery tool, and sometimes just as a toy. So I was in the ideal situation to try it as temporary replacement for my missing hard disk OS. I downloaded and installed Slax, and to be frank with you, I'm impressed. I am able to do EACH AND EVERYTHING that I was doing on my regular Ubuntu on hard disk, including running Virtualbox ! I customised the default ui a little as I am a big fan of KDE 3.5.x, I do miss it.
Am sharing some screenshots with you:
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/8015/snapshot1.th.png
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/7214/snapshot2.th.png
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/2434/snapshot3t.th.png
*img523.imageshack.us/img523/6093/snapshot4s.th.png
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/3443/snapshot5.th.png
*img523.imageshack.us/img523/3082/snapshot6b.th.png
*img208.imageshack.us/img208/3023/snapshot7.th.png
*img208.imageshack.us/img208/369/snapshot8i.th.png
After a difficult time with my PC for the past few weeks, I narrowed down the problem to a failing hard disk. This experience taught me that while SMART may say everything is OK, you can still have bad sectors on your hard disk, as diagnosed by the manufacturer's (WD) tool, downloaded from their website. I returned the hard disk for replacement on Monday; guess that puts a lot of my work on hold, or does it?
I have always used pendrive linux as a data recovery tool, and sometimes just as a toy. So I was in the ideal situation to try it as temporary replacement for my missing hard disk OS. I downloaded and installed Slax, and to be frank with you, I'm impressed. I am able to do EACH AND EVERYTHING that I was doing on my regular Ubuntu on hard disk, including running Virtualbox ! I customised the default ui a little as I am a big fan of KDE 3.5.x, I do miss it.
Am sharing some screenshots with you:
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/8015/snapshot1.th.png
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/7214/snapshot2.th.png
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/2434/snapshot3t.th.png
*img523.imageshack.us/img523/6093/snapshot4s.th.png
*img263.imageshack.us/img263/3443/snapshot5.th.png
*img523.imageshack.us/img523/3082/snapshot6b.th.png
*img208.imageshack.us/img208/3023/snapshot7.th.png
*img208.imageshack.us/img208/369/snapshot8i.th.png