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jonah
Was using Knoppix Live CD on my new Vista PC, shut down last night no
problems, booting Vista today and would not load, got drive hunting
problems half way through boot up and could not get to the login
screen. Checked out all usual suspects, no good then tried a backup
image, this worked but Vista would not load because the new boot
loader was corrupt. Used the Windows Repair option and to my great
surprise and satisfaction it worked perfectly without drama and Vista
booted up as per the image I put in.
Point is I am puzzled as to why or if running a Knoppix (or any other)
live CD O/S which does not supposedly affect any existing
installations could have caused the problems. I cannot think of
anything I did before running Knoppix from boot so I presume when it
writes a swap file to use as RAM it buggered up Vista in some way.
Used latest 5.1 version of Knoppix on Vista Ultimate box.
Any enlightenment appreciated.
Jonah
problems, booting Vista today and would not load, got drive hunting
problems half way through boot up and could not get to the login
screen. Checked out all usual suspects, no good then tried a backup
image, this worked but Vista would not load because the new boot
loader was corrupt. Used the Windows Repair option and to my great
surprise and satisfaction it worked perfectly without drama and Vista
booted up as per the image I put in.
Point is I am puzzled as to why or if running a Knoppix (or any other)
live CD O/S which does not supposedly affect any existing
installations could have caused the problems. I cannot think of
anything I did before running Knoppix from boot so I presume when it
writes a swap file to use as RAM it buggered up Vista in some way.
Used latest 5.1 version of Knoppix on Vista Ultimate box.
Any enlightenment appreciated.
Jonah