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Pete49:
Another question (sorry). My old laptop has windo$e xp which I want to try mint on but it also has a protected section that has the win install on it. If I install mint will it wipe that as well?
Pete
AdeV:
--- Quote from: Pete49 on May 13, 2014, 01:51:05 AM ---Another question (sorry). My old laptop has windo$e xp which I want to try mint on but it also has a protected section that has the win install on it. If I install mint will it wipe that as well?
Pete
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Pete -
That's up to you; Mint will ask you if you want to zap the entire hard-drive & use it; if you want to keep your hidden Windows install partition, you'd need to choose "Something else" when Mint asks how you want to install it, and make sure you don't include that partition in the part of the disk Mint can see.
BaronJ:
--- Quote from: Pete49 on May 13, 2014, 01:51:05 AM ---Another question (sorry). My old laptop has windo$e xp which I want to try mint on but it also has a protected section that has the win install on it. If I install mint will it wipe that as well?
Pete
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Hello Pete,
You may find that once you wipe the working XP installation the recovery partition will no longer function ! You need to create the recovery CD's first from the desktop utility, however if at some point the CD's have already been made then you cannot create a recovery CD set. To get out of this trap, you will need to do a full wipe and restore from the recovery partition. After you have done this, you can then use the utility from the desktop to create them. Afterwards you then can let Linux wipe the whole drive and install itself. Should you decide to go back to Windows you will now have the CD's to do so. Also make sure that you have the Windows key. Its on the licence sticker that should be attached to the bottom of your machine.
Sorry if this sounds complicated but M$ never made things easy.
garym:
Hi Pete,
Are you hoping to create a dual boot system with win XP? I assume you know that if you use the recovery partition to get windows back it will just set the pc back to the state when you got it. You could use Macrium Reflect as I detailed above to create an image of the windows partition before doing anything else, but this is only realistic if you have an external disk to back it up to.
Gary
DavidA:
Ok.
After the problems with the mouse not working with my Ubuntu I decided to take another approach.
I downloaded openSUSE 13.1, successfully burnt the image to dvd (a first for me) and, from the boot menu selected the dvd.
It went down hill from there.
The computer is reading the dvd properly. but I can't see a way of running from the dvd without installing SUSE on my hard drive.
he options I am given are...
Boot from hard disk.
Installation.
Rescue system.
Check installation system.
Firmware test.
Memory test.
Bearing in mind that I don't yet want to wipe out the Visa that is on this machine, what do I do next ?
Partition the Hard Drive ?
Dave.
p.s. The mouse seems to work fine with SUSE.
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