Broken Windows

[JamesAC]

My Windows has broken.

I've got a dual boot system, with Windows XP (Home) on the primary drive, and Linux (Debian) on the secondary. I use Linux almost all the time.
Yesterday I booted up into Windows to use one of the few apps I haven't got a Linux replacement for. My anti-virus software started to download the latest file, and suddenly failed catastrophically. It recommended that I should roll back to a previous version of the database, so I tried to do that. The whole thing ground to a halt, with the HD making sad little whirring noises.

I re-booted, and got a message saying Windows was corrupted, and I could try restoring from the install disk ...

So I booted into Debian, and ran a diagnostic on the primary disk from that. Basically, it's buggered.

So, I think I'll ditch Window$ altogether, and get a new hard disk to either extend my existing Linux, or possibly install some other distro on it.

It's curtains for Windows!!

 

[ian turner]

And your question is ?
What anti virus were you using ?

 

[beanzontoast]

Tough when a drive goes bad, isn't it? I've had a couple down the years that have died, but most often, the machine has become obsolete before that.When you say bu@@ered, do you mean the linux diagnostic is reporting bad sectors? Did you manage to salvage the data you want from it? Have you tried reformatting it and then re-running the diagnostic to see what it says? (Mind - if it is going bad, the same thing could happen again).I've already decided up that Windows 7 will be the last incarnation of Windows I invest in. If I didn't need to keep up with the way Windows does things for work purposes, I'd have made the move to full-time Ubuntu ages ago.