Dual Boot Problem

[Larry Grover]

J.Markoll wrote:
> 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 ?

Did he say that he runs two different machines?  I got the impression he 
was rebooting the same machine between windows and linux.  But maybe I 
got confused.  I've had a hard time following this conversation.

Regardless, any machine with a drive that spews SMART error messages is 
suspect, and is due for a hard drive replacement as soon as possible.

Regards,
Larry