On Nov 6, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Boris Epstein wrote on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:21:39 -0500:
>
>> If I have a dual-boot machine (Linux and Windows) would I have any
>> good tools under Linux that would allow me to look at the content of
>> the Windows boot partition, administer it, clean up the registry,
>> remove viruses if any, etc? The Windows installation seems to be so
>> defective as to be quite useless so I am trying to think of a good
>> strategy for dealing with the situation.
>
> Why would you want to do that? If there's valuable data you can get
> them
> off the partition with Linux (CentOS can mount NTFS) and then
> reinstall
> your Windows to that partition. Actually the data on the partition
> should
> stay unharmed by a reinstallation or repair installation (you can do a
> repair installation from the install media).
> When reinstalling Windows you may lose bootability to Linux and
> reestablish grub. There are lots of articles/tutorials on the net if
> you
> need help on that.
Reinstallation repairs reinit the registry which borks all the
applications installed, so it is always better to just reinstall.
-Ross
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