Mark Wallace wrote:
You may have dodged a bullet when the Windows recovery Cd's didn't
work. When they do, they might wipe out Linux. You certainly will
have to reinstall Grub and, if they recreate the partitions they might
clean the whole hard drive.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Adam <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I then tried using my recovery discs to create a VM using Linux
VirtualBox, but the recovery discs wouldn't allow it. I assume
they check the hardware or something.
Sorry if I wasn't clear -- I was using the Windows recovery discs (3
DVDs) to try to create a VM, so there was nothing they could overwrite.
I know that using them to restore a native Windows install will
repartition the HD and overwrite the MBR (clobbering anything else in
the process), which is why I'm hoping I never have to do that again. I
think I had to do that about twice before this box got set up the way I
wanted it.
A Windows install or reinstall or recovery does wipe out everything on
the primary HD, blithely assuming you'll only use that version of
Windows and want to use the entire disk for it. It doesn't "play nice,"
as opposed to every Linux distro I know of which doesn't mind sharing.
Adam
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