emifra,
> Once you have it installed in the "C" partition as the primary Operating
> system, you are stuck with it.
I did an install of Vista RC2 but knowing that starting with XP I guess, I
knewn that Windows was now difficult or impossible to uninstall, so I made
certain that I had a good clone of my C partition before installing Vista.
So when I tired of Vista because RC2 does not support Partition Magic and
some other programs that I use, I just cloned the C partition in revers, the
clone ending up as C and now I was back to XP. I have seved myself several
times that way.
And as long as I am writing about rescues I will describe my more recent
minor disaster. My DELL hard drive had several hidden partitins and heard
hints that there were others that Partition Magic did not show. So I ran the
live disk of Ubuntu and opened the GNOME partitioner. It did show these
extra partitions. And It hink showed the contents of them. But my
inexperience with G-Parted did me in and I managed to wipe all the
partitions on the hard drive. What was worse that the drive was also
rendered incapable of accpting the cloned C partition which lived on an
external HD. It took some varied mechanations to mek the drive accept the
clone. I also had to recreate the various other partitions, unfortunately
the hidden ones could not be recreated. But things are back to normal...
almost.
The Dell is an unusual machine. There is an OS install disk which also
installs some other applications. But most of the bundled programs were
either in folders on the C partition or individual disks that came with the
machine. I had learned long ago not to trust the so called techs from the
mfg of my computer, I have gotten too many conflicting stories. When I found
that a very nice partition which containted hardware tests was showing a
failure in the interrupt controller. Out of curiosity I called tech support
to ask abou this and the 'tech' using a program like Remote Desktop,
supposedly installed an upgrade to this program. He said that the program
had been written before my model came out, but either the upgrade was NOT
installed or it contained no fix.
Meanwhile the G-Parted fiasco took place along with my ultimate fix. But
gone were the hidden partition. So I called tech support again and told him
about the failied test utility program upgrade. I explained that all the
hidden partitions now seemed gone. He told me that there was no way to
restore those programs, that they came with the hard drives from the
factory. While these stories seems vaguely believable I don't know wheter
either one is. The second disk in the Dell disk wallat contains the test
utility so I do have the ability to test things that the program on the
hidden partition would test.
And so I end this boring story since most of the readers have long since
stopped reading anway.
Jim
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