Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

[Robert Pendell]

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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> 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.
> 

Yea.  I meant the recovery console.  When I booted by backup
installation (also a sandboxed install for a good reason) I ran chkdsk
on my primary installation.  The registry hives were recovered and
appeared in one of the folders created by chkdsk.  The whole structure
intact.  I still don't know how the folder entry got corrupted to being
with.  It was the directory "C:\windows\system32\config" that got
corrupted so everything in it was inaccessable.

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