Nothing surprises me really. I just wish we could shake off the 'industry standards. It's annoying being bound to NTFS, .doc files etc. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Grant Sewell <<a href="mailto:dcglug@thymox.co.uk">dcglug@thymox.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:37:31 +0000 Gareth France wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, alan c <<a href="mailto:aeclist@candt.waitrose.com">aeclist@candt.waitrose.com</a>> > 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) > 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. You would expect so, but frequently you would be surprised. If I remember correctly, the first "edition" of NTFS was not supposed to suffer from fragmentation, according to Microsoft, so they didn't write a defraging tool. Grant. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>