{"id":62,"date":"2009-08-24T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/linux-ubuntu-fixes-windows\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:56:15","slug":"linux-ubuntu-fixes-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/linux-ubuntu-fixes-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux (Ubuntu) fixes Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it at least fixed a problem of Windows not being able to boot.&nbsp; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/content\/view\/27176\/1141\/\">ITWire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you do when Windows&nbsp;will not&nbsp;boot and&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;repair itself from the installation CD? You fire up a Linux Live CD! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always carry around a Ubuntu Live CD with me.&nbsp; Many times I have helped out my fellow Windows colleagues which was about to have their PC&#8217;s\/Laptops reformatted since support could not solve their problem via their normal ways.&nbsp; In most cases I was able to fix the problem without re-installing Windows and in those cases where they had to re-install, I could at least saved their data.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of times, this impressed the people so much that they switched to Linux.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/windows\" rel=\"tag\">windows<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/live%20cd\" rel=\"tag\">live cd<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fix\" rel=\"tag\">fix<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rescue\" rel=\"tag\">rescue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it at least fixed a problem of Windows not being able to boot.&nbsp; From ITWire: What do you do when Windows&nbsp;will not&nbsp;boot and&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;repair itself from the installation CD? You fire up a Linux Live CD! I always carry around a Ubuntu Live CD with me.&nbsp; Many times I have helped out my fellow Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[63,62,64,61],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-fix","tag-live-cd","tag-rescue","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}