[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[mike at trausch.us (mike at trausch.us)]

On 02/08/2012 06:02 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> But no, seriously, what Jim said. Fsck won't help the Windows side, will
> it? So they probably should run scan disk on the Windows partition
> if/when they get it back up just in case there is a bad section on the
> hard drive. That should flag the bad section and move the data, if it's
> not too far gone already.

Scandisk is so 1990s!  ;-)

Seriously, these days it's just CHKDSK; specifically, on the system
volume you can only run that at boot time, so you have to run it after
the system has been booted, tell it to check C: and fix errors, and it
will ask you if you want to schedule a boot-time CHKDSK run.  Say yes,
reboot, wait and see what happens...

In a real pinch, for WinXP one can use BartPE to run CHKDSK manually on
the partition, and for Windows Vista or 7 one can use the install media
to boot into a recovery environment that has a CMD.EXE shell.  (Only
took them eleventyone years to figure out just how useful that could be...)

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
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