If I had a rea install disk I would reinstall even though that would be a pain what with wiping out MBRs and wanting to take ove the whole drive..., but this is a Acer laptop with only a recovery partition and I don't want to let it trach the good parts of my drive, the Kubuntu parts.
My son play a few games on the dark sibe of the dual boot and I want to run a tax program (want is not the right verb) anyway I'll try wine again. It wouldn't work last year because of some lame copy protection.
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Isn't the windows answer to this type questions a complete reinstall?
Generally after getting a virus that is also the safest option as there is no telling what holes the virus left on your system... though I am probably a bit paranoid when it comes to that
As a side note, what do you need it for? I find there is very little that you cannot do either natively or in wine or a vm...
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(another) dual boot question
Hi All,
I managed to bork a dual boot, 11.10 and Vista. I hardly ever boot to Vista, but now I need it.
Post clean install both OS's worked OK, then I got a trojan on my browser. I downloaded an offline checker, and ran it.
Next I tried to mount the Vista partition under 11.10 to nuke the virus and in the process of trying to mount the NTFS partitions rw I think I changed something that killed Vista.
The boot symptom is:
Power up, give Bios password, get Grub menu.
If I choose 11.10, no problem.
If I Choose Vista, I get a black screen for bout 2 seconds then the grub menu pops back up.
There are no error messages and no other clues.
I can't tell where the boot is failing. Is there a verbose mode in Grub somewhere?
I'd ask on a Windows forum, but you guys are smarter and likely can produce an answer where Googling 'till my eyes hurt produced nothing.
Thankyou,
Jim
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