(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[Leon Goldstein]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Be warned.
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>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.
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>Bill
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Reminds me of the time I wiped out my Caldera eDesk 2.4 install while 
setting up XCDRoast.
Any other tales of mayhem and mutilation?

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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