On 3/5/07, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello All,
I wanted to try out this month's Chip DVD which showed a blank disk in
Etch. It has Kubuntu 6.10. So I rebooted to try out the same dvd in
windows. However I missed the boot-loader and it booted back into
Debian. While it was in progress, I gave the 3 finder salute and the pc
rebooted decently and this time I selected xp. However it would not load
beyond the account login part.
I attached a spare hdd and booted into debian and backed up my entire
disk for safety. Then using the xp recovery console I gave the command
'chkdsk c: /p' and now I am able to boot into the admin account only and
that too slowly. Many features have got disabled. In short, I got to
reload windows for the first time ever since I got the system 5 years
ago with all its umpteen updates having to be reloaded again. :P
My fstab has ntfs as the file system for the win partition. Now I have
added a hash to that line to prevent the partition from being mounted in
Linux. This is a caution to all those using Debian Etch with an NTFS
partition in the pc. Please don't keep the ntfs partition permanently
mounted via /etc/fstab. From other problems too, Debian Etch is far from
'Testing' or almost stable. Its *Unstable* .
doesnt this only apply to ntfs partitions mounted read-write (which is
tagged experimental & use at own risk in kernel), mounting as
read-only (the default way) doesnt seem spoil things!
Karunakar
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