My best friend`s girlfriend just bought a new laptop. Well it comes with FreeDos which is a kinda cool to me but not to the rest out of the geek world. But well since it`s a girl box who loves nothing more then some office software and plenty of space to store movies/animes/songs ... nothing much to be done besides formatting the box with a nice "Ah Long XP Edition " .
For the first 7-8 hours things work well. My goody friends install lots of crucial software such as antivirus, firewall anti-spyware and u can go on the rest to ensure the system is secure (yeah rite ,althought i gave up on those software years ago).
I must say when a girl use a computer .i`m always amazed on how destructive it could get (no offense to all high tecchies from woman around the world) but dat`s the fact that i couldn`t really count out.
After she install just a simple printer driver (Epson C90 driver) things start to trash out. It turn out that the current anti-virus that was installed on her system is behaving like a bratty mother -in-law with some stupid exec dll protection. Which render windows useless and protect the anti-virus from being uninstall.. even in the so call famous Safe Mode.
This stupid mechanism is enough to shed tears for everyone . Well solution i did some stupid ugly ntfs-3g mouting using my faithful Knoppix rescue disk ( heck i didn`t even bother tryin to boot into the fancy gui).
First of all let`s clean up the mess of the disk by issuiung ntfsfix to the respective partition
root@Knoppix:~# ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Next mke a mount point and start mounting
root@Knoppix:~# mkdir /mnt/sucks ; mount -t ntfs3g /dev/sda1/mnt/sucks
Voila now you are free to read/write/append/delete the any files and folder that undeleteable in Windows . (provided u know what to delete )
After all the trouble. the winbox start working like it was suppose to work (which i don't care much ). To all Windows user out there, give us a shout if you are in trouble :p
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