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Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug"
Barence writes "Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has taken the unusual step of responding in the comments of a blog posting that claimed Windows 7 was suffering from a potential 'showstopper bug'. Stories had been sweeping the Internet that using the chkdsk.exe utility on a second hard disk would lead to a massive memory leak bringing the operating system to its knees in seconds. Responding to a blog post titled 'Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM,' Sinofsky wrote: 'While we appreciate the drama of "critical bug" and then the pickup of "showstopper" that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level.' He signs off with the words: 'deep breath.'"
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/windowspartition
my pleasure.
It sucks when people spread FUD, doesn't it?
I think it's time to dust off the 'kdawsonfud' tag!
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Its NOT a Bug.... its a FEATURE! It's from M$ correct? That's the way its supposed to be...
"isn't not unresponsive"
Congratulations! You have plumbed a new depth in illiteracy. That's a triple negative. Did you really mean responsive or unresponsive?
Nah, he wouldn't be fired.
He would just choke on his own vomit.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Anyways you could always copy the files and boot sector from the small partition to the Windows 7 one and raze the small one, then you just need to edit the BCD registry using EasyBCD or bootedit.exe to point to the correct partition on boot. But yeah those are both WINDOWS tools... but bootedit.exe should be available from Windows 7 Setup on the DVD if you mess up and can't boot into Windows (press SHIFT+F10), and fixboot.exe can install the boot sector onto any partition.
And then they say Linux is difficult?
Well, at least it no longer overwrites GRUB when installing (or at least Win7 RC didn't do that) - while XP always did.
That's a bug and will be fixed in Win 7's first service pack.