I'm helping a coworker to fix his laptop. His WindowsXP got erased somehow while leaving Windows Update on overnight. Somehow, the recovery partition became corrupt as well.
In my attempts to repair his computer, I pulled his hard drive out and hooked it up to my Fedora 16 Linux computer. I then had to use Gnome Disk Utility to discover that the computer even had a recovery partition. I also had to use Disk Utility to unhide the recovery partition and make it bootable. I then put his hard drive back into his computer to begin the recovery process. Unfortunately, the recovery data was corrupt. It installed, but hung after reboot.
I got a refirb Windows XP disc from Ebay, but for some reason it wouldn't install. I tried to use the Windows disc to install on FAT32-stopped responding. Tried to use the Windows disc to format to NTFS-stopped responding.
Finally, I said "fuck it", and pulled the hard drive back out, rehooked it back to my Linux box, and once again used Gnome Disk Utility to format the drive, in NTFS!
After that, the install went through without a hitch.
Why was this Windows install sooooo reliant on Linux? Who knows. Who cares. Linux did it again......again!
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