Re: Vista barf

ed wrote:
> dlwiggers wrote:
>> My wife's laptop just swallowed something.
>>
>> She turned it on, it did the booting microslop thing.  Then it choked 
>> on what seemed like a reboot when it bumped into grub and now it 
>> insists the the drive is fubar.
>>
>> 2007 boots fine and the drive, including the windows portion, is aok.
>>
>> Any ideas short of trashing vista altogether (my choice)?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Lee
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> run the recovery disk that came with the laptop, you most likely only 
> have some driver file that got trashed with a background disk defrag or 
> "optimization/upgrade"
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One of my favorite microquotes, "optimization/upgrade" .

Makes me warm and fuzzy.

I just upgraded 2007 to 2009 and magically, the vista boot is now 
working, but with error burps every now and again.

I didn't get a disk with the laptop and never bothered with a boot disk 
or whatever Sony called it.  I assumed then (about 2 yr ago) that Vista 
was doomed for the trash bin anyway.  Prophetic, right?

I'm just now picking files and directories to nestle in a new portable 
drive for now.  The boss is ready to migrate anyway.

Nice to bump into you again, Ed.

Lee
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