Dell Laptops

[J]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:46, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is all news to me; I put Ubuntu (currently 9.10) on my Inspirion 1525,
> and never had a bit of trouble.  Of course this could be that because I have
> my own backup methods using external SATA
> (indirectly through internet), I never allowed DataSafe to do anything when
> it asked.  I prefer to
> back up my Windoze with ntfsclone(1) from package ntfsprogs.
>
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

It's not necessarily 9.10, but those using Grub2 instead of the old
Grub as a boot loader.  Grub2 puts some things in a location on the
hard disk (either at the end of the MBR or just outside the MBR, I
really don't know for certain) that happens to be a place where
DataSafe writes some of it's data.

I was hit with that issue too and it does not matter if you actually
use DataSafe or not.  In my case, I booted into Win7 and DataSafe
updated itself and that was all she wrote.  Since I never use it, I
just deleted all the DataSafe stuff and fixed the MBR (again) and have
been fine ever since.

I only have Windows for two things, Lightroom/Photoshop and a couple
games, and I only back up the photos themselves to external disks
after each time I work on them... finished batches are backed up to
DVD also.

In fact, I didn't even realize that the DataSafe stuff existed until
it bit me in the ass after that update.  (shows how often I actually
boot into Windows)...

Cheers
Jeff