| 1 |
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: |
| 2 |
> Adam Carter wrote: |
| 3 |
> > > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. |
| 4 |
> > |
| 5 |
> > Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would |
| 6 |
> > 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully |
| 7 |
> > security updated windows box. |
| 8 |
> > 2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag |
| 9 |
> > 3. Reconnect the disk to the original box, and boot from the windows |
| 10 |
> > install disk and perform a repair. Use an installation disk that has |
| 11 |
> > been slipstreamed with the correct service pack. You should be able to |
| 12 |
> > find the media - just remember that OEM media is different to |
| 13 |
> > standard media. |
| 14 |
> > 4. Uninstall all the crap.... (check Run registry keys) |
| 15 |
> |
| 16 |
> That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces |
| 17 |
> puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just |
| 18 |
> visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my |
| 19 |
> Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up something. I |
| 20 |
> would mount it read only to save data but scared to do any writing to it. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
I use it to read and write from/to NTFS drives without problems. The in-kernel |
| 25 |
one appears to be ok as well. |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
> I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now. |
| 28 |
> It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about |
| 29 |
> software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either. |
| 30 |
> Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but maybe |
| 31 |
> it will last the kids a little while at least. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
It should, but just in case, take a backup of the whole drive (dd |
| 34 |
if=/dev/kidsdrive of=/backupofkidsdrive) |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
That way you can always restore it quickly for them ;) |
| 37 |
|
| 38 |
> For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
Linux users (especially on this list) are generally quite clued up about |
| 41 |
computers. The downside of having that knowledge is that relatives tend to |
| 42 |
come to us if they need help. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
At my home, the only MS Windows machine is the work laptop of my partner. |
| 45 |
For the rest, it's either Linux or Solaris :) |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
-- |
| 48 |
Joost |
Archives