[mdlug] Fwd: Windows 7 screen after dual boot

[David L Lambert]

The reason I got pulled away from the meeting...

One of our laptops is dual-boot, Windows 7 Enterprise and Debian 
Stable.  My youngest child decided to reboot it to Windows 7, and it 
comes up with the following screen, has sat there for at least 15 
minutes, no clue when it'll finish...

    *Your computer was unable to start.*
    Startup Repair is checking your system for problems...

    If problems are found, Startup Repair will fix them automatically.
    Your computer might restart several times during this process.

    No changes will be made to your personal files or information. This
    might take several minutes.

Since Windows 7 is out of support, I have some inclination to just wipe 
that part of the disk and make it single-boot; but my kids want to keep 
Windows 7 in particular for the following applications:

  * Angry Birds (youngest child)
  * Roblox (second-youngest child, my daughter, who you saw on the meeting)
  * Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, City Skylines, maybe a few others (oldest
    child)

I wonder if my modification to /etc/rc.local that uses Widows's 
"PAGEFILE.SYS" as an additional swapfile triggered the check, or if it's 
just a fancy front-end to full-sidk CHKDSK (like fsck after 180 days 
without a check...)

Anyone seen this particular screen before, and know of a key-sequence to 
skip it, or other workaround? Any suggestions for how to run Angry Birds 
on Linux, or of a similar Linux alternative?

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Windows 7 screen after dual boot
Date: 	Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:44:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: 	David Lee Lambert <davidleelambert at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: 	davidleelambert at yahoo.com <davidleelambert at yahoo.com>
To: 	MDLUG's Main Discussion List <mdlug at mdlug.org>
CC: 	David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com>



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