[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[Greg Clifton]

Wait, you installed Linux and Windows broke? Isn't that the way it is
SUPPOSED to work? Isn't that called that a "feature?"

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.


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> so a windows game system broke and won't boot.
> yep. sounds about right.:-)
>
> As long as the windows side was booted into after the repartitioning, then
> that was not the cause.
>
> It could be a bad drive section in the windows side.
>
> Blue-screen on all boot methods sounds like a bug hit it. At least the
> system has a Linux partition on it for real work :-)
>
> He can mount the windows side and run a virus scanner on it.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, John Anderson <j at intte.com> wrote:
>
>> I installed mint side by side on my nephews computer up in NY about
>> three weeks ago. I defaulted the boot to windows to not force the issue.
>> I had some minor issues on install where the toolbars wouldn't show up
>> in the gnome desktop. Installing other desktops appeared to fix the
>> issue for some reason. I left him running KDE.
>>
>> Windows apparently worked for at least a week after I left. For the past
>> week however, Windows blue-screens on boot. It also blue-screens in all
>> safe mode options. They do at least get as far as the screen asking
>> which safe mode option to choose.
>>
>> Now, if someone described these symptoms to me on a Windows only box I
>> would guess hardware failure. However the mint partition is working and
>> my nephew is using that in the meantime. He doesn't seem to mind except
>> he can't run some of his games.
>>
>> Now, the only thing that I really 'did' was that I did use the
>> repartition tool to make room for mint linux - something that I haven't
>> actually done that often so I don't know how common problems are.
>>
>> There is also the question that maybe the toolbar issue that I had
>> relates to an issue with the video card, as opposed to a video driver
>> issue which was my working theory.
>>
>> So- anyone have any issues with repartitioning a windows drive causing
>> windows to bluescreen?
>>
>> Does it seem plausible that it could be a hardware issue- given that
>> Mint seems to run OK?
>>
>> The Ntfs partion can't be mounted from the file manager GUI inside Mint-
>> is there  a way to force it on the command line?
>>
>> Is this perhaps related to a virus/rootkit on the windows side?
>>
>> Might fsck help?
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