Here's some free advice. If you find bad sectors on your hard disk, either by running a disk scanning utility or discovering lost or damaged files, get yourself an external USB hard drive (preferably USB 3.0 capable to ensure compatibility with next-gen hardware) with some decent storage capacity (mine is 500GB, but you can go much larger than that), and get cracking with your preferred backup software because that hard disk is coming in for a hard landing any day now.
My current hard disk, which I've only had for a year, has 248 bad sectors (and counting), which equates to about 45 to 50 GB of permanently lost space. Two months ago, there were five bad sectors. We won't go into why I waited two months to replace my hard disk, just suffice it to say that the time is nigh.
So this weekend, I will be performing a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10 on a brand new hard disk, and I'm planning to bring you along for the ride (who knows, I may even set up a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and get real crazy up in here). Of course, I could easily just restore my latest backup and make everything exactly as it was, but that wouldn't be of much use to you, would it?
Next week, find out how to turn your newly installed Ubuntu OS into a sleek, user-friendly, and highly efficient workspace as I build my current "pimped out" Ubuntu setup from the ground up. Get stoked.
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