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Re: 1.5.6-1: WinXP and cygwin/xfree86
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:12:59 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: 1.5.6-1: WinXP and cygwin/xfree86
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 ennisa<at>gdls<dot>com wrote:
> Has anyone had issues with cygwin utterly destroying the file system of a
> WinXP(prof.) machine? I'm not sure what happened, but I got a BSoD,
> rebooted, and the HD wasn't recognizable by anything (I'm in the process of
> re-installing XP now).
>
> Adrian
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BSOD>. Cygwin cannot cause a BSOD. BSOD's
are caused by bugs in Windows (a faulty driver would be my guess). Cygwin
can only trigger it, just like any other program can. You got unlucky.
Igor
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