I had a HD fail on me while using Windows 98 as main OS, yet thanks to ext, I think it was ext2 at the time this happened, I still managed to repurpose it for Linux, for several months.
It was ok from possible data failures point of view, I didn't had much data other than the distro and the stuff I also needed to compile under Linux.
Somehow it managed to still work with the disk, with the sectors that were not damaged.
It was ok from possible data failures point of view, I didn't had much data other than the distro and the stuff I also needed to compile under Linux.
Somehow it managed to still work with the disk, with the sectors that were not damaged.