RE: interesting linux vs windows observation
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of VJ
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:48 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: interesting linux vs windows observation
Do not get carried away. I have seen linux to be more fragile
in my case. I had a hard-disk with some bad sectors and linux
would crash like anything. I installed windowsXP just for fun
and it did not crash at all. I saw that it had detected the
bad sector (it was logged in event-viewer).
You might have been just lucky that linux has not tried to
write data in that bad area.
OR, your drive could have auto-remapped the bad sectors (many
drives do this) and thus getting rid of this problem for some time.
VJ
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I would assume that much of this depends on what is wrong with the drive
and what parts of the drive are bad. If some part of the disk is bad
then it depends what is stored on that part of the disk. For example,
if the bad part of the disk just so happens to be where windows is
storing its swap file then its understandable that windows would be
having issues. But if say Linux stores some of its documentation in the
same spot on the drive, then Linux wouldn't necessarily issues.
-Mike