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Vista CRCDSK.SYS Error


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You have two options.
Call Acer to obtain recovery DVD. They may send you one for shipping costs.
Buy full Vista DVD.
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VISTA is famous for this problem. Win7 does not have it. The CRCDSK.SYS file on the main boot disk is corrupt. That's all it is. Everything else is ok.

To solve it, DO NOT NTFS-COMPRESS your booting disk, where the CRCDSK.SYS then becomes corrupt. If you use a good file manager (shareware - not sure, since I'm paid-up registered for Servant Salamander), I can NTFS-UNCOMPRESS THE FILE.

In my beginner Vista days, I'd allow two Vista boot, (or XP) partitions on the one drive. Using NTFS-compress, removing junk files (games, Symantec, Adobe, multi-media, help files, etc), these partitions can be 5 to 10 GB.

WIN7 - Haven't tried to NTFS-COMPRESS that one file; not brave enough. NTFS comes in many versions: xp, vista & win7 ....

So - simple problem. Simple solution. Showing how stupid MS Windows programmers really are.

BTW: LINUX programmers are similarly even more crazy: So many incompatible versions, including WINE, programs. updates, and "*.INI" (IN oPENoFFICE - all lower case ONLY!!)
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