[tech] Combtail and Catfish Fixes

Andrew Gozzard gozzarda at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue May 7 14:09:29 WST 2013


To whom it may concern:

Combtail, 2013-05-03:
 	Failed to boot into GRUB, Master Boot Record (MBR) was 
mysteriously absent. Combtail only has Win7 on it, so reinstalling GRUB 
seemed purposeless. Attempted to obtain a Win7 install disk to fix the 
MBR. A disk was obtained after I had already left, so [TPG] used the Win7 
disk to "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" it. Combtail is now working*.

Catfish, 2013-05-06:
 	Slows to a crawl and crashes after booting into windows. Linux 
works fine. "Use Linux" deemed to be insufficient solution. Tests revealed 
the "C:" partition NTFS was borked. "CHKDSK /f" done fixed it. Catfish is 
now working*.

Kind Regards,
Andrew Gozzard [GOZ]

*For some degree of "working".


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