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    Vista Bug can TRASH your system

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by serenityconsulting, Sep 10, 2007.

  1. serenityconsulting

    serenityconsulting Notebook Consultant

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    Last Friday I found a bug in Vista that can trash your system in a BIG hurry.

    If you decide to use the Disk Cleanup tool and see two entries related to error reporting DON'T SELECT THEM. Doing so will cause Vista to start eating itself, starting with the current user's data and settings and some Vista system files.

    At least one other user over in Microsoft's forums complained of the same thing.

    The Vista DVD will repair your Vista installation, but more than likely all your documents and user specific program settings will be gone (e.g., Office 2007 thought I was running it for the first time).

    I didn't panic because I had a recent drive image on a USB drive and everything not there was recoverable from other sources. I use Acronis True Image Home 10. Unfortunately I found out T.I. has a major shortcoming when it comes to USB connected hard drives. I have a patch supplied by Acronis for this issue, but what I didn't realize is the patch only worked on the Windows version of the software. If you use T.I. to create a self-booting CD, that version is NOT patched. The self-booting CD uses Linux as the base OS for T.I. and Acronis has since told me this issue will be resolved with an update scheduled soon.

    I fought between Friday afternoon and noon Sunday to do a restore from the USB drive. Finally I extracted the drives from the USB case (PATA) and my 2370 (SATA) and used my desktop to mount both drives. I booted the T.I. CD, and *** 12 hours *** later, the image finished restoring to my notebook drive.
     
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yet another reason why I try to avoid Vista. If MS didn't see major errors like this during their testing, they really didn't test the OS at all....bad sign, given they tried to really hit the 'we'll release it when it is high quality' nail on the head.
     
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  3. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    In all honesty, I have always avoided Microsoft utilities, regardless of where they exist along the SDLC (software development life cycle) or in which operating system they are bundled. The Disk Cleanup Tool in particular has never been all that good.
     
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