Fix for HP Laptops

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Tue Mar 31 23:03:58 UTC 2009


Bas Jacobs wrote:

> If I say something stupid please note so, but what if you remove the
> driver from vista? It won't be able to disable the hardware anymore i
> assume? Or if you "force kill" vista by holding the on/off button for 5
> seconds? (Although this leads to partitions not being accessable from
> linux due to a lockfile.)

Interesting solutions - both of which I suspect would work.

The latter isn't really a problem - it's not a "lockfile" as such, it's that
the file system is now marked "dirty" and needs a scandisk in Windows.  You
can use fsck from Linux.
-- 
derek





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