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Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin
- From: Robert Pendell <shinji257 at uplink dot net>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:54:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin
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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> From: Robert Pendell
>>
> [snip]
>> Yep. And both chkdsk and fsck can have issues and make
>> things worse than they were. Although that is rare anymore.
>
> Rare indeed. Since I switched over exclusively to NTFS the moment it was
> available, I've never lost data from a HDD due to inadvertent power offs
> etc. Even despite the "never need to defrag" and "yeah yeah sure it's a
> journaling FS" lies.
>
>> I didn't know you could run chkdsk from the installation disc
>> although I still would of never recovered the registry using
>> the boot disc. I had to do it all through a second install I
>> just so happen to have installed at the time.
>
> You might be confusing two things here. If by "boot disc" you mean a floppy
> that XP etc creates for you, in my experience that's next to useless. It's
> actually called the "recovery disk", and AFAIR contains like a stripped down
> registry and not much else. Again AFAIR, you can't actually even boot from
> it.
>
> You can boot from the Windows install CD-ROM, and get to what they call the
> "Recovery Console" and with a lot of luck and a little work do things like
> run chkdsk, restore saved registry "hives" (we used to call them "files",
> but I'm old fashioned), and a bunch of other things that shouldn't be
> necessary in the 21st century yet still are occaisionally for some reason.
>
Yea. I meant the recovery console. When I booted by backup
installation (also a sandboxed install for a good reason) I ran chkdsk
on my primary installation. The registry hives were recovered and
appeared in one of the folders created by chkdsk. The whole structure
intact. I still don't know how the folder entry got corrupted to being
with. It was the directory "C:\windows\system32\config" that got
corrupted so everything in it was inaccessable.
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Robert Pendell
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