On 04/08/10 12:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 11:53:17 +0100, Tony Travis<a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk> > wrote: >> Now you're running 10.04, you can use the disk utility to check the >> health of your disks, System/Administration/Disk Utility. Have a look >> at the SMART data for your internal disk. Bye, Tony. > > I looked at the SMART data, and the only warning entry was that > overheating "has occurred in the past," which they say is a sign of > "old-age." The computer is only just over a year old, i.e., just out of > guarantee. So not much to be done about that, but thanks. Rowan. > >
Luckily hard drives aren't too expensive. Chances are since it's only about a year old it'll have a SATA hard drive in there. You can get 2.5" SATA hard drives reasonably cheap, I got a 320GB one for about £40 a couple of months ago, I believe they're a bit cheaper now depending what size you want. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/