[ubuntu-uk] Bug #1 and onwards....

[Gareth France]

Intriguing. So why would Ubuntu spot faults on a drive that Windows can't?
I mean you can understand that guy's perspective, you would expect
Microsoft of all people to be the best at working with NTFS.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:

> Yesterday I spent time with someone who was interested in using
> Ubuntu. The Live CD ran well in her laptop. However, the live session
> disc utility showed some errors, numerically apparently quite a lot. I
> discussed her considering a new drive, but anyway helped her back up
> some files.....
>
> She later had contact with her son who connected remotely and
>
> 'could not find any significant problems and made the comment "your
> HDD is formatted as NTFS the drivers in UBUNTU have only been around a
> short time. Basically a Microsoft file format. that has been reverse
> engineered". So he feels I should just do a full back-up at the moment
> and he will keep checking the hard drive. So that is what I shall do'
>
> I do not know whether to laugh or cry.
>
> (originally I attempted to post and share this on my Google+  but
> failed to share with Ubuntu UK Team)
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> alan cocks
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>
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