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Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin


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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> [snip]
>> 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.
>>
>> - --
>> Robert Pendell
> 
> Are you FAT or NTFS?  If the sun goes behind a cloud FAT will wig out on
> you.  I'd next suspect an antivirus program.  Then google desktop.
> 

The freaky thing was that I had FAT32 and it was working fine until I
converted the drive to NTFS in order to test a feature of MSN Messenger
7.0 (when it was in beta) and soon after bootup the screen went black.
Rebooted to find that particular part of the drive corrupted.

- --
Robert Pendell
shinji257@uplink.net

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