If you need a boot environment that knows your hardware, try downloading the backup program Reflect from Macrium - there is a free version. (I use it for backup/recovery of my Win 10 and Win 7 systems. So far it has been 100% solid.)
You can then use it to build a boot USB with all your drivers. I have not explored their recovery environment except to initiate a full system drive restore but at minimum, I expect it will include all the Windows facilities. As an incidental bonus, you can create backups in case your remediation measures go south - restore and try again. You can repeat steps 3-4 until you get it right... ;-) Michel > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of L A Walsh > Sent: May 21, 2018 2:28 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of > /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached) > > David Conrad wrote: > > I think Michel LaBarre's suggestion of running chkdsk and sfc is a > > good one; > --- > I agree...chkdsk indicated something odd in an attribute block, > but I've yet to be able to correct it, since I'm running win7 > on a newer machine that uses USB3 and doesn't understand > that my RAID controller is a megaraid type. > > So booting into recovery options (or booting from the win7 > install disk) both don't see any USB keyboard/mice > nor the system-disk which uses the megaraid controller > it just doesn't know it enough to see it... > > To start with, I need to hook up a PS/2 kbd & mouse > to access those, while I could load the megaraid drivers > then, it won't go through the discover process until > the next reboot, at which point the megaraid drivers > will be gone again...so...working on updating my > WinRE image and burning a new Win7 install disk that > can understand the missing stuff. > > This is normal for me -- can't get from point 1 to 2 > without going through 3-4, where you need 5-6 as > prereqs for those...etc... > :-( > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
