On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:43:51 -0500, "BillW50" wrote in
article ...

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:54:53 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox
wrote:

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:55:12 -0500, "BillW50" wrote
in article ...

Careful, I have been burned by Linux Live before. My Windows didn't
have a swapfile because I was running it on a SSD. And Ubuntu Live
doesn't care and makes it's own in the Windows partition. I have no
idea why Linux needs to touch anything it shouldn't, but it does.
And when I booted Windows after Ubuntu Live it popped up a window
saying Windows Installer and froze. I much prefer WinPE or BartPE.
As they don't play games with your partition like Linux does.

rant

As with many other anecdotes and instances of failure from you, this
reeks of user error. I've been using various Linux Live CDs,
including Ubuntu, extensively for system recovery for better than a
decade and what you describe just doesn't happen and I'll wager has
never happened. First, Linux Live CDs don't auto-mount hard drive
partitions, they must be manually mounted by the user. Second, Linux
Live CDs don't use swap. Third, Linux doesn't use a swap *file* by
default it uses a swap *partition* so it would have completely
flattened the partition had it somehow gone off the deep end and
decided to use your drive as swap on its own. Fourth, even if it did
use a swap file, that file would have been just that, a file on the
file system separate from anything else and Windows wouldn't have
cared a whit.

Crawl back under your bridge, troll.

/rant

+1

You nailed it.

Nope you both are wrong

Without corroborated evidence to the contrary, I'd say it is you that
are wrong, not the thousands of other users who have had none of the
issues you do with Ubuntu (or other) Live CDs.

and owe us an apology.

If you are ever able to produce any evidence that an Ubuntu Live CD has
trashed any system other than yours by using a Windows swap file when
it wasn't manually configured to do so, I will. Otherwise, my
assertion and characterization stands.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.