From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PIGii-0004Yg-75 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:16:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DB53E06C2; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3364EE06C2 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.151] (helo=smtp19.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIGiD-00056D-Ha for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:16:21 +0100 Received: from 5ed3454e.cm-7-4b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.211.69.78] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp19.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIGiC-0004z3-AC for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:16:20 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529B71F70 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:16:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YJkZzYs5Y0jK for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:16:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B667B1EB6 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:16:17 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:16:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CE0AF60.3020505@gmail.com> <4CE1ED6F.8080406@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CE1ED6F.8080406@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011160916.18091.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1PIGiC-0004z3-AC X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.445, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -2.60, TW_HK 0.08, TW_KD 0.08) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 5a91bdaa-6deb-432a-8a59-b38600e65b38 X-Archives-Hash: 8b38c5ee6b6da9ea8bbfc0cea37bee22 On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. > > > > Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would > > 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully > > security updated windows box. > > 2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag > > 3. Reconnect the disk to the original box, and boot from the windows > > install disk and perform a repair. Use an installation disk that has > > been slipstreamed with the correct service pack. You should be able to > > find the media - just remember that OEM media is different to > > standard media. > > 4. Uninstall all the crap.... (check Run registry keys) > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just > visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my > Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up something. I > would mount it read only to save data but scared to do any writing to it. emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g I use it to read and write from/to NTFS drives without problems. The in-kernel one appears to be ok as well. > I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now. > It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about > software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either. > Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but maybe > it will last the kids a little while at least. It should, but just in case, take a backup of the whole drive (dd if=/dev/kidsdrive of=/backupofkidsdrive) That way you can always restore it quickly for them ;) > For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O Linux users (especially on this list) are generally quite clued up about computers. The downside of having that knowledge is that relatives tend to come to us if they need help. At my home, the only MS Windows machine is the work laptop of my partner. For the rest, it's either Linux or Solaris :) -- Joost