Hoo-fucking-ray, all I can say about this incident. Just a less than a month ago, I went thru the pain of re-installing both my OSs, Ubuntu (upgraded it to Feisty Fawn from scratch) and Windows (from XP to Vista). Now, the HD that hosts both of those OSs chose to stop working!
It was my oldest drive, which I mainly used for OSs simply because earlier Ubuntus and XP didn't know their way into installing themselves onto SATA disk (I got two of them, newer and bigger than the IDE disk) without feeding them special drivers prior the installation. I was simply lazy and went the most convenient way. The re-installation was then a simply "habit" of just doing the same I did before.
Now, one and a half days later, things are getting running again. The tricky part was finding the space required for not just one, but two OSs in the previously full SATA disks. And I also had to find and install those drivers for XP so it could install. Then I could backup any data I could from those disks, defrag those, use Partition Magic to cut those two Linux partitions some space and then install Ubuntu as well.
Well, most of the programs are still missing, but OSs are up and running. And no, I didn't re-install Vista, I backed down to XP. My mere 2800+ single-core CPU and 1G of memory wasn't simply enought for smooth use... Basic system ate 700M of memory, even after I shut down about bazillion services, turned off most of the candy and so on. Pathetic.
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