Catastrophic bug found in Win7 RTM - Page 2

Riptide · 08-07-09, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by seeker

You do now.

Same. We've had to do it several times on the machines at work when they started having disc issues. Sometimes booting off the xp cd, running recovery console, and doing a chkdsk /r will bring the machine back up so it at least boots and we can pull stuff off it.

**Shamrock** · 08-07-09, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Sazar

/me shakes angry fist at shamrock for getting more hits to Mick.

Bad form ol' chap, bad form.

**crainger** · 08-07-09, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Riptide

Same. We've had to do it several times on the machines at work when they started having disc issues. Sometimes booting off the xp cd, running recovery console, and doing a chkdsk /r will bring the machine back up so it at least boots and we can pull stuff off it.

Yep, saved me from having to reformat a PC plenty of times. Although, I'd never run chkdsk inside Windows anyway. I've always done it from the Recovery Console.

Buio · 08-07-09, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by LovingSticky

but I have a big problem with DailyTech stupid headlines (thus unsubscribed their RSS).

Indeed, talk about trying to get more hits to their site. Shabby sensationalist reporting style.

I already stopped reading The Inq, I don't even click on Inq links if I can avoid it. Got tired of Charlie's senseless anti-NVidia ranting.

Bman212121 · 08-07-09, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Sazar

chkdsk /r basically is repair mode. Apparently if you are looking to use other applications and use the system while the computer is in repair mode, the guy who raised the "issue" claimed it was "slow".

The microsoft dev team responded saying this was by design so that the chkdsk repair could be performed more quickly.

This will typically affect people who have less than 4GB of system memory, who have admin rights and who have a necessity to run chkdsk.

Well this should only affect using it on a secondary disk like they reported. Unless it has changed if you attempt to run chkdsk /r on your boot partition windows is going to run it on the next startup anyway. So that cuts out an even larger chunk of people.

I'm all for making it run faster when your on startup because you can't use the pc until it actually boots up. This was probably the reasoning for the tweaks.

**crainger** · 08-08-09, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Buio

Indeed, talk about trying to get more hits to their site. Shabby sensationalist reporting style.

I already stopped reading The Inq, I don't even click on Inq links if I can avoid it. Got tired of Charlie's senseless anti-NVidia ranting.

In the days of a million and one tech sites, they need outrageous headlines more and more. Well THEY think they need them.

Buio · 08-08-09, 07:46 AM

True and I don't condemn a site for just some of those. Have to be somewhat forgiving for it, because it is fairly common. But when the articles become tiresome to read, like on the The Inq, I took my interest and clicks to some other places instead. Although The Inq is more profiled as a tech gossip site, which I don't feel Dailytech is. Maybe I'm wrong though.

08-08-09, 07:46 AM	#19
Buio Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,092	Re: Catastrophic bug found in Win7 RTM True and I don't condemn a site for just some of those. Have to be somewhat forgiving for it, because it is fairly common. But when the articles become tiresome to read, like on the The Inq, I took my interest and clicks to some other places instead. Although The Inq is more profiled as a tech gossip site, which I don't feel Dailytech is. Maybe I'm wrong though.