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| 1300261 | 2012-09-11 12:53:00 | For a regular user what does Linux offer that Windows 7 doesn't A severe lack of viruses. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300262 | 2012-09-11 20:56:00 | A severe lack of viruses. It's OK, he runs Mac OS, everyone knows they don't get .... Oh wait, yeah, they do get them too ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1300263 | 2012-09-11 21:19:00 | A severe lack of viruses. Common sense ought to stop most of them anyway ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1300264 | 2012-09-11 22:25:00 | Wohoo! Thought I'd try a different partition manager, AOMEI worked! So, now to set up a dual boot and wipe windows 8. Next question - what do I need to do to make sure it goes on my secondary partition and doesn't do an install over windows? | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300265 | 2012-09-11 22:58:00 | Wohoo! Thought I'd try a different partition manager, AOMEI worked! So, now to set up a dual boot and wipe windows 8. Next question - what do I need to do to make sure it goes on my secondary partition and doesn't do an install over windows? If you have wiped the Windows8 partition and it is showing free just have it installing in the free space. Your second HD will be sdb. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1300266 | 2012-09-11 23:07:00 | Just go through the install and it'll prompt you :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1300267 | 2012-09-11 23:17:00 | Just go through the install and it'll prompt you :) Ok, cheers. Just been looking on the web and seen all the horror stories about not being able to boot into windows and the like lol Well, if its as easy as running through the installer, hopefully by tonight I'll have linux - otherwise I'll be able to add my horror story to SJ's thread :p :D |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300268 | 2012-09-12 01:14:00 | Ok, just before I sell my commit myself to linux - been reading about cases where linux overwrote the windows bootloader and ****ed it up. Is this likely to happen or is this internet scare stories? | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300269 | 2012-09-12 01:18:00 | Ok, just before I sell my commit myself to linux - been reading about cases where linux overwrote the windows bootloader and ****ed it up. Is this likely to happen or is this internet scare stories? It's unlikely to happen if you install GRUB correctly, but it is possible. However, you can easily repair the Windows bootloader from your Windows CD\DVD. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300270 | 2012-09-12 01:23:00 | Yeah it's easy enough to boot back off the Windows CD / DVD and run: fixboot /mbr |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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