Peter Boy wrote:
Additionally, some OEM installation programms which have to be delivered with hardware specific OEM versions, make "strange" assumptions how the user intends to use her/his computer. Some will overwrite the harddisk completely, even without to ask.
Agreed there - of my two PC's here, both come with 'restore' disks and not full versions of anything. The HP Pavillion restore disk will restore everything into the C: only. Anything partitioned as another drive will remain intact.
The eMachines that I have does something awful on restore and if I had no recent backups I would have been in trouble. The disk is partitioned to C: and D: and I assumed that the restore would just 'do' the C: drive. Not happy to find that the restore managed to repartition the drive without asking me and losing all my D: drive and data.
Have now learned my lesson. Windows is on a 20GB, slow old drive. Linux
is on a partition of my 80GB, of which 60GB is FAT32 shared data between
the two. To make sure I have no bother, I'll remove the 80GB before I even attempt another restore with that disk!
Bryan Anderson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
