[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

[Tom Bamford]

Farran wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:45 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
>> gord wrote:
>>
>> > i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with
>> > windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this
>> > strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfamiliar
>> > with. live cds are very careful not to do anything that could hurt the
>> > currently installed systems (if they did there would be an outcry)
>> > 
>>
>> Yup, that's a common thing amongst less knowledgeable computer users. 
>> If something goes wrong they'll blame the last knowledgeable (or maybe 
>> no to knowledgeable) person, even if it's a fault of their own or the 
>> operating system/application.
>>
>> I've had that a few times.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>     
> thanks guys
> yes, those issues mentioned are generally what happened - the majority 
> of the time, I was demonstrating the ulimate power of linux (how it 
> would work with minimal config) and attempting to fix windows' admin 
> issues through editing the files. So yes, in most cases I had 
> accessesed the hard drive.
> My Music teacher wasn't happy; I argued for a couple of minutes using 
> most of what's been mentioned, until I realised it was fruitless, and 
> questioned you lot for some solid evidence!
>
> No luck, however, on the admin issues...
> Cheers :D
>
> ===============================
> Farran Lee
> I'm only 15 :-P
>
You shouldn't experience any problems after accessing a Windows 
partition after mounting it in Ubuntu as long as you unmount it safely 
or you let the live CD reboot the machine.

If the reported errors were indeed only MS chkdsk, Windows only performs 
a quick check on the filesystem, it's more for show than anything else 
to let you know "Windows is back in control". Unless I'm wrong, 
FAT32/NTFS partitions will always be checked by Windows if it sees they 
have been accessed since it was last shut down, regardless of whether it 
was safely unmounted or not. This could seem like an unpredictable event 
to many users, especially since the disk check shows a famous 
Microsoft-blue colour background, but nothing is wrong. Tell your 
teacher it's yet another antiquated feature from 1995 that Microsoft 
have failed to bring into the 21st century, Ubuntu would "never" behave 
in such a manner unless it was important.

Tom

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