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Adam Carter wrote: |
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> > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. |
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> Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would |
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> 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully |
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> security updated windows box. |
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> 2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag |
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> 3. Reconnect the disk to the original box, and boot from the windows |
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> install disk and perform a repair. Use an installation disk that has |
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> been slipstreamed with the correct service pack. You should be able to |
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> find the media - just remember that OEM media is different to |
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> standard media. |
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> 4. Uninstall all the crap.... (check Run registry keys) |
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That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces |
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puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just |
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visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my |
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Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up something. I |
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would mount it read only to save data but scared to do any writing to it. |
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I do wish I could do what I want to with it tho. It's not a bad |
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machine. 3.2GHz CPU with a little over a Gig of ram and about a 60Gb |
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hard drive. It would run Linux sweetly. |
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I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now. |
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It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about |
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software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either. |
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Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but maybe |
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it will last the kids a little while at least. |
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For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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