[mdlug] Just another windows rant.

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mmmmm windoze bad

Pat



On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Ingles, Raymond <
Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

> So, on Sunday, I play one of few games I have that don't run well under
> Wine. (Couldn't play on the PS3, the wife was watching her shows. :-> )
> Boot up XP and play for a while. All seems well, and I shut the computer
> down and go to bed.
>
>  Monday night, I figure I'll play a bit more. I try to boot into Windows,
> and it freezes with a black screen. Huh. Try to boot into safe mode, the
> system locks up showing that it's trying to load "JGOGO.SYS". So, I boot
> into Ubuntu... no problem, except I note that the NTFS partitions weren't
> mounted. When I try to mount the C: partition, I discover that they weren't
> unmounted cleanly.
>
>  I search on JGOGO, and find a few things to try. Renaming the JGOGO.sys
> file (from Linux) doesn't work. Restoring the file and trying to use the
> Recovery Console doesn't work. (The administrator password isn't what I
> recorded, either - I think that's a mistake and not a virus or anything,
> though. Either way, the Linux "chntpw" utility makes quick work of that.)
> Crud. Well, fine, I do a repair install. The thing *still* won't boot.
>
>  Through all this, Ubuntu's working fine. Guess I'll have to reinstall
> Windows from scratch. Good thing I only use it for games. :-/
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                        (313) 227-2317
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