I totally had a moment today.
Somebody accidentally tried to (not even sure how this happened) to upgrade one of the computer in class to Vista from XP with a virtual drive. Obviously this didn't work once It restarted, then the people in morning class tried to "fix" it, which only made it worse. When I got to school, the computer would boot into XP if you manually choose it under boot options otherwise it would boot loop into windows Vista setup something wouldnt work then it would restart.
The IT Dept. head wasnt sure what was going on cause the boot.ini file for XP was fine, I suggest that since vista was partly installed that its boot manager was probably installed, (which it was, more on this latter.) but after doing a search for the file we could not find it (bcdedit.exe). I happened to have Ubuntu 10.10 CD in my laptop cuase I had just updated Ubuntu on my machine(Dual boot 7 and Ubuntu) I suggest that perhaps we should use the a live CD and search for the file, after 30 mins of the teacher and another student looked for the file and messeing with boot.ini they let me load ubuntu. Took a good 5 mins for the live CD to load, another min for the search to finish
I found the file for them. Rebooted the computer back into XP then navigated to the file location and said here it is.
I kind of 1 uped the teacher and the student
which I didnt mean too, I was just trying to be helpful. Now Im kind of worried that they are going to peg me as a thinks he knows it all or something like that, but hey it worked right?