1 Topic by Wout

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Topic: Can GParted damage hardware?

Last week I used GParted liveCD for creating a new (Linux) partition on a notebook (Dell Latitude CPt S). Resizing, creating, it was no problem. But, I quitted QParted with the option 'Shut down & Eject" (or something like that). The notebook powered off but the CD never ejected... still after power on!
I used the famous hole to rescue the GParted CD, but the notebook doesn't recognize the cd drive anymore. Maybe it's an unlucky coincidence, but maybe...
...can GParted give commands with fatal impact on (notebook) hardware? Anyone knows?

2 Reply by JanC

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Re: Can GParted damage hardware?

I think that if GParted can do that, the hardware wasn't designed correctly to begin with (e.g. there was a particular model or model series a couple of years ago that could be damaged by the linux kernel, but that was because they "reused" some standard drive command codes to do completely non-standard things).

As this is a laptop, you could try to see if the CD drive connector is still pluged in correctly.

And hardware just fails sometimes; I had a 1 month old hard disk die on me last week, fortunately it was part of a RAID mirror, so I could keep the system running on the other disk...