Stephen, Consider throwing another HD into your box (4-8 gig will work nicely for most things) and do it that way.
Also consider going with removable hard drive caddies and a dock (you'll probably get 2 caddies and a dock for about $45 - $50 + another hard rive). If accessing your windows files is important, go dual boot. If it doesn't matter, your options open up a bit. For the best of both worlds, (something I used to do when I was in my early stages of windows recovery :)) use removable drives plus a third HD in the box (secondary master) with a FAT32 file system on it for data files only (in Windows, "my documents" was mapped to it for example). FAT32 is nice in this case because both OS's can read and write to it without hassles. Doing things this way, I could switch between OSs on their respective removable drives (the dock set up as the primary master). Any files I needed to share I would either keep on, or copy to the drive that stays in the box. Food for thought at any rate. Good luck. Marcel -----Original Message----- From: Aaron J. Seigo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Restoration Disks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:17, steven K wrote: > I recently bought a new computer and they gave me a restoration disk > instead of an installation disk. I wanted to duel boot with linux and > windows, and this restoration disk erases all partitions and takes my > whole drive for itself. Man what a pain! I think the only thing I can do > is shrink the windows partition with partition magic. Is that what they > do with new computers nowdays? Just give you a restoration disk? yep. one more way that Microsoft software and its attendant licensing schemes (read: rip offs) suck. shrinking the windows patition should work well though. i've done it dozens of times myself without any problems. of course a dual boot system is fine, but a completely Free system is divine. ;-) take care... - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95xt+1rcusafx20MRAjRGAKChy7smh7zkZdY4OpAU9G1cMXKO7wCgmvmw cDxtU31gkfUPgvKrd2AZGyo= =l2MA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed.
