[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[Tim Watts]

Linux runs, Windows broke?  I dunno, I'd count this as a 100%
success! :-)

RE Mounting NTFS: is ntfs-3g installed?  If so, from a shell I can just
do:

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/ntfs

and I'm done.  s/sda2/<your-device>/



On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 16:26 -0500, John Anderson 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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