Wait, you installed Linux and Windows broke? Isn't that the way it is SUPPOSED to work? Isn't that called that a "feature?" <div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>so a windows game system broke and won't boot.<br>yep. sounds about right.:-)<br><br>As long as the windows side was booted into after the repartitioning, then that was not the cause.<br><br>It could be a bad drive section in the windows side.<br>
<br>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 :-)<br><br>He can mount the windows side and run a virus scanner on it.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, John Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@intte.com" target="_blank">j@intte.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I installed mint side by side on my nephews computer up in NY about<br>
three weeks ago. I defaulted the boot to windows to not force the issue.<br>
I had some minor issues on install where the toolbars wouldn't show up<br>
in the gnome desktop. Installing other desktops appeared to fix the<br>
issue for some reason. I left him running KDE.<br>
<br>
Windows apparently worked for at least a week after I left. For the past<br>
week however, Windows blue-screens on boot. It also blue-screens in all<br>
safe mode options. They do at least get as far as the screen asking<br>
which safe mode option to choose.<br>
<br>
Now, if someone described these symptoms to me on a Windows only box I<br>
would guess hardware failure. However the mint partition is working and<br>
my nephew is using that in the meantime. He doesn't seem to mind except<br>
he can't run some of his games.<br>
<br>
Now, the only thing that I really 'did' was that I did use the<br>
repartition tool to make room for mint linux - something that I haven't<br>
actually done that often so I don't know how common problems are.<br>
<br>
There is also the question that maybe the toolbar issue that I had<br>
relates to an issue with the video card, as opposed to a video driver<br>
issue which was my working theory.<br>
<br>
So- anyone have any issues with repartitioning a windows drive causing<br>
windows to bluescreen?<br>
<br>
Does it seem plausible that it could be a hardware issue- given that<br>
Mint seems to run OK?<br>
<br>
The Ntfs partion can't be mounted from the file manager GUI inside Mint-<br>
is there a way to force it on the command line?<br>
<br>
Is this perhaps related to a virus/rootkit on the windows side?<br>
<br>
Might fsck help?<br>
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