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Recovering Linux – 6

Posted on Tuesday, 25 September 2012 by

This is the sixth installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries, the third post for diagnostics and disassembly, the fourth post for reassembly and hardware checkout, and the fifth post which … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 5

Posted on Friday, 7 September 2012 by

This is the fifth installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries, the third post for diagnostics and disassembly, the fourth post for reassembly and hardware checkout…  Disk partitioning is one … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 4

Posted on Friday, 7 September 2012 by

This is the fourth installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries, and the third post for diagnostics and disassembly… Okay, I think I’m ready to power-up my … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 3

Posted on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 by

This is the third installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries… My PC-A system’s hardware problem identified  — disk drive sda failed  — and backup resources verified… … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 2

Posted on Sunday, 26 August 2012 by

This is the second installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post for foundation and background. So, we had two hard drive failures in two different Linux boxes, nearly simultaneously. … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 1

Posted on Thursday, 23 August 2012 by

A few weeks ago, we had near-simultaneous disk drive failures in two of our Linux PCs: both desktops are over four years old, and they’ve been spinning nearly 100% of that time.  Seeing independent hard drives fail at roughly the … Continue reading →

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