{"id":98,"date":"2008-11-20T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/More-Upgrades"},"modified":"2020-08-15T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T22:56:07","slug":"more-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2008\/11\/20\/more-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"More upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI am now intimately acquainted with the &quot;repair&quot; option of the Windows XP CD setup process; the Windows Recovery Console, and the FIXMBR and FIXBOOT commands. Of those features, I believe that the Repair option wasn&#39;t really required, but I guess it didn&#39;t hurt to refresh all the Windows system files, reboot three additional times unnecessarily, and apply all the Windows Updates since SP3. I&#39;m sure it was for the best.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, if you have set up your computer for dual-boot between Windows XP and Linux using the Grub boot loader, do not use Partition Magic 8.0 to re-size the Windows NTFS partition. The consequences of this may include destroying the master boot record of the hard disk and rendering your Linux ext2 partition unrecognizable to Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to re-install Ubuntu 8.10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now intimately acquainted with the &quot;repair&quot; option of the Windows XP CD setup process; the Windows Recovery Console, and the FIXMBR and FIXBOOT commands. Of those features, I believe that the Repair option wasn&#39;t really required, but I guess it didn&#39;t hurt to refresh all the Windows system files, reboot three additional times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-commentary","category-linux","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}