Was using the Mrs.'s HP computer and saw that it wanted to install a Service Pack update. I figured that Microsoft would have had that down by now, so I said go right ahead. Then my daughter tried to use the computer for a school project, and came to tell me that "something was wrong" with it.
Indeed something was wrong--it was blue-screening on startup with one of those darling Windows errors, specifically, "STOP 0x0000C1F5." I Googled it and found a number of messages saying that it was due to (yes) faulty download and/or installation of a Service Pack update, with most of those saying the best solution was to wipe the hard drive and reinstall. Hey, thanks a lot, Microsoft, I owe you one.
Luckily I found one message that suggested booting from a Linux Live CD and deleting a particular directory on the Windows drive. So I burned a copy of GParted, booted from it, opened up a terminal, typed in the magic Linux command line incantations, and restarted. Had some scary moments during repair, with various freezes and error messages and all kinds of CHKDSK repairs, but eventually Vista was indeed back up and running.
I know, I know... you're asking why I didn't just install Linux on the computer. I agree, I should have.
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