Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin
Gary R. Van Sickle
g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net
Tue Apr 18 00:32:00 GMT 2006
> From: Robert Pendell
>
[snip]
>
> Yep. And both chkdsk and fsck can have issues and make
> things worse than they were. Although that is rare anymore.
Rare indeed. Since I switched over exclusively to NTFS the moment it was
available, I've never lost data from a HDD due to inadvertent power offs
etc. Even despite the "never need to defrag" and "yeah yeah sure it's a
journaling FS" lies.
> I didn't know you could run chkdsk from the installation disc
> although I still would of never recovered the registry using
> the boot disc. I had to do it all through a second install I
> just so happen to have installed at the time.
You might be confusing two things here. If by "boot disc" you mean a floppy
that XP etc creates for you, in my experience that's next to useless. It's
actually called the "recovery disk", and AFAIR contains like a stripped down
registry and not much else. Again AFAIR, you can't actually even boot from
it.
You can boot from the Windows install CD-ROM, and get to what they call the
"Recovery Console" and with a lot of luck and a little work do things like
run chkdsk, restore saved registry "hives" (we used to call them "files",
but I'm old fashioned), and a bunch of other things that shouldn't be
necessary in the 21st century yet still are occaisionally for some reason.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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