(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>I needed some more disk space to install SuSE 10.1, so I used the 
>utility on the SuSE install DVD to shrink the Linux partition in front 
>of it (Fedora 7 - hda7).  The shrink function worked nicely; my Fedora 7 
>install was not damaged.
>
>However, when I tried booting into Win XP (on hda1) I got the startup 
>error screen.  I had to run the repair installation routine, during 
>which I had to hunt down the mobo driver CD.  Fortunately, the restore 
>worked, and it did not overwrite the MBR.
>
>Be warned.

That's not as bad as my booting a CentOS 5 CD to test an interactive
kickstart configuration file, expecting that it would allow me to abort the
installation before writing anything to the hard drive.  Wrong!  I not only
removed all partitions from the internal hard drive, it cleaned off an
external USB drive as well.

Bill
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