wilcal Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Just for the record a friend of mine, and user of WinBlows XP Pro, got themselves into one of those won't boot to desktop because "xyz.dll" is missing. So as I understand it the OS won't get to a working desktop even in the "Safe Mode" so that they can reinstall the dll file or something like that. Anyway I met the person that evening and gave them a copy of Ubuntu 5.10 Live-CD. That evening the person, who had never experienced a Linux platform in their lives and with no coaching, was able to boot off the Ubuntu Live-CD and get back on line at least to manage their Yahoo messages. IMO Ubuntu continues to work towards an extremely intuitive platform and is truly as they put it "Linux for Human Beings" [moved from "Other Linux and Unix distributions" - arctic] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Every Linux liveCD can do the same... and more than that some can even repair an NTFS partition! (e.g. Kanotix, via captive-ntfs, or Slax, via Paragon's lufs- provided for the latter that you have a licenced version of the Paragon driver). And any sane windows user could/should create a WinPE CD (e.g. by Bart's tools) for those not-so-rare cases windblows refuse to play ball... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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