On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 ennisa<at>gdls<dot>com wrote:

> Has anyone had issues with cygwin utterly destroying the file system of a
> WinXP(prof.) machine?  I'm not sure what happened, but I got a BSoD,
> rebooted, and the HD wasn't recognizable by anything (I'm in the process of
> re-installing XP now).
>
> Adrian

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BSOD>.  Cygwin cannot cause a BSOD.  BSOD's
are caused by bugs in Windows (a faulty driver would be my guess).  Cygwin
can only trigger it, just like any other program can.  You got unlucky.
        Igor
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