My MyBookWorld drive failed recently; still under warranty,
but that means losing the data, and I thought it was more
likely the board than the drive. So I dismantled the Book,
extracted the drive, installed Hardy Heron ubuntu on a
computer with sata connections, ordered the sata cables
mailed in (no one sells them locally, AFAIK). And installed.
Frozen Device, Fatal Error, Cannot be Read, I/O error -
seems to be the drive after all. Drat.
Hardy Heron is a convenient build though - the default
installation came up as a dual boot. It re-partitions the
boot drive during the install, and formats whatever space
you allocate to the Linux OS. I didn't try to establish a FAT
partition because I use external storage for that.
The dual booting windows is, however, even slower than
it used to be starting up. Beyond that, I can't test the file
structure on the drive - I tell it to test disc C, it says it has
to reboot, I reboot, it forgets to perform the test. Maxtor
says the drive is fine, but I want to check *windows* for
installation damage - does anyone know offhand where
I can look for that answer?
-Galen
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