So I decided to simply break Vista and see how its recover options handled things. I figured that setting the owner and ACL’s for the root and recursive files to my disk might just do the trick. Once the recursive set was finished I rebooted. It booted into the OS but then just came up with a blank, black screen. Tried to reboot a few times, no luck. Even tried the last know good setting option. So in goes the setup disk and went into the recover options. Check disk was the first that scanned the drive and it seems to have found a bunch of issues, went by too quickly to really see the issues. Then, feeling and acting as a pretty novice user I went through the default recover stuff. At the end of it, it gave an option to review what it did, it seems that something was wrong with my System Partition or something. No option to actually save the report for later, that would be a nice to have.

In the end, I’m back up and running and it seems that some of the issues I was having previously have gone away. For example the Side Bar now works right, and general access to the file system isn’t locked down. I just tried to install the drivers for my audio card and modem. All installed fine. This is great!

Back to work…

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