On Fri, 31 May 2013, fred james wrote:

> My old Compaq Evo finally died and I bought a Acer Aspire w/W8 installed.
> I want to rid the machine of W8 without trashing any "system necessary"
> files that might be on the hard drive.

Fred,

   Any 'system necessary' files will be Microsoft-specific. On all the
portables I've bought over the years I've just run cfdisk to repartition the
drive and installed linux. Put the boot loader in the master boot record
(MBR) and you'll be good to go.

Rich

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