A bad Fedora install fixed VISTA!

Allislost · #1 17th October 2008, 03:14 AM

I had a big problem with Vista (wav files would create massive slowdowns) so i decide to Reinstall vista

. Here's what happened in chronological order...

*Booted a Win98 restore cd to access fdisk

*CD caused an error (NTLDR Missing) after a failed cd boot

*I remembered that i didn't have a vista install cd and that i deleted the restore partition

*After many failed(?) Vista bootloader repairs I downloaded fedora on another comp

*During the install of Fedora i deleted the PQservice partition and used that space for the fedora partition

*After that, the Fedora install froze while working in the 666th package. Weird huh?

*Then, after a hard reset Vista loaded properly and i'm back to using Vista!

Isn't this strange? Was the PQSevice partition the source of the original problem?

BTW I'll try to install Fedora soon.

tsorvoja · #2 18th October 2008, 02:01 PM

You might want to consider putting some money to lottery today...

tsorvoja · #3 18th October 2008, 05:56 PM

Just wanted to add that the PQSevice partition was the recovery partition for Windows Vista. After this there is no way to restore Vista installation when Vista borks. But if you start using Fedora who cares...

creeping death · #4 18th October 2008, 06:42 PM

clearly a a bad filesystem problem...u should consider reformatting or atleast doing some maintenance work (such as chkdsk, defragmentation) on your drives,not that i did'nt find know about ur experience amusing and intriguing , but just thought that i should let u know.

...ofcourse all those problems would be history if u'd switch to fedora...the filesystem was the main reason that drove me away from windows and to fedora.

Allislost · #5 19th October 2008, 11:25 PM

@Tsorvoja

Yeah i already knew about the PQService par and it's use, but deleted all the files in that par and used it to store some of my data about a year ago, HA which is another reason why i complete forgot about the missing Vista install files.

And Remember that weird slowdown caused by .wav files? I fixed it!

It was caused by having a "Tags" option shown as one of the many "sort by" folder options. I just took it off the bar, restarted, and now i can work with my WAV files!