Re: [school-discuss] BASIC-256, Linux, &c.

[kibler <kibler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe what is being suggested is that windows is notorious for
corrupting the hard drive and producing the errors you might be
getting. The solution, if that is the case, is to format the hard drive
and re-install everything from scratch. At HP many years ago, that
was standard procedure at least once a year if not more often.

My feeling is - get a real operating system that doesn't have those sort
of problems. My wife use to use windows and we had that problem every
year until she switched to a Mac, and since then we have never had
a single problem. Of course I use Linux and don't have the problem as
well.

Bill.

On 12/28/2014 06:25 PM, Christopher Whittum wrote:
> Specifically, what were the error messages?  (I'm thinking that your assumption is probably correct, but a little more info would be helpful.)
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> Christopher Whittum
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> On 12/28/2014 08:46 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> > >
> >
> >     ... The context isn't about Linux for it's own sake; it isn't even
> >     about computers all the time...
> >
> >
> >     ... The laptop's original OS (MS Windows 7), while it was dying
> >     its slow and ugly death, gave error messages that seemed to
> >     indicate possible problems with the hard drive and/or other
> >     components. The messages often contradicted each other;
> >     furthermore, my general success in running Linux distros on this
> >     machine appear to indicate that the hardware isn't in any
> >     really bad condition...
> >
> > >
> >
> > Sir,
> > I think it's great that you're trying to use GNU/Linux, but if you just want to do programming, and you don't have a lot of time to devote to learning to use another operating system... but have you seen this?
> > Windows Portable Version (Beta)
> > http://www.basic256.org/
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/basic256prtbl/
> >
> > You mentioned Microsoft Windows 7 problems... any details, are you able to take pictures?
> > When you boot up with GNU/Linux, are you seeing any errors?
> >
> > I surmise you've already looked at the possibility of re-loading your Microsoft operating system... if not, we can discuss this further.
> >
> > kind regards,
> > Daniel Villarreal
> > http://www.youcanlinux.org
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