Dual Boot Problem

[J.Markoll]

Larry Grover a écrit :
> Tim Frost wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:26 -0800, James Diehl wrote:

>>> I don't know Joyce!  Windows NTFS messed up files in my Ubuntu, and 
>>> Windows wouldn't run &
>>> crashed after I ran Ubuntu! I don't know, and I 'm not sure that I
>>> care!  My Ubuntu is running fine on that system now, and the Windows
>>> program started running fine on another!  I think I'll get some Holy
>>> Water and some candles.  Maybe hang a little cross on the monitor!  It
>>> couldn't hurt!
>> I suspect that your original Windows install had a special partition.
>> You mention "SMART" which is a Compaq technology, which involves a
>> special recovery partition.  If the Ubuntu install tampered with that,
>> then I can understand Windows being unhappy.
> SMART is also a self-monitoring technology that many (most? all?) modern 
> hard drives come with.

> http://www.linuxjournal.com/comment/reply/6983

> A boot up message about the drive failing a SMART test may have 
> indicated that the drive had serious errors and was failing.  A failing 
> hard drive could prevent the operating system, windows or linux, from 
> booting, or if it did boot, cause the system to hang or crash.

> Regards,
> Larry
I remember I tested my HDD a few weeks ago, by enabling smart with the 
help of smartmontools (and invoking smartcl and some options).
I got help from someone to put the right options in, and get a diagnostic.
But James told us that he runs the two OS's on different machines fine,
so can his hard drive be suspected ?
Best Greetings, Joyce Markoll.


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