Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-16 Thread Tom Bamford
Farran wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:45 +, Rob Beard wrote: gord wrote: > i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with > windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this > strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-16 Thread Farran
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:45 +, Rob Beard wrote: > gord wrote: > > > i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with > > windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this > > strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfamiliar > > with. live

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-14 Thread Tony Arnold
Sean, Sean Miller wrote: > Re. being warned about "corrupt" disks... how does this happen if you're > booting from CD? Surely it would never get near Vista? I presume he meant he put the disk into a running Vista system, perhaps prior to asking the machine to reboot. > Have Microsoft infiltrate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-14 Thread Sean Miller
Re. being warned about "corrupt" disks... how does this happen if you're booting from CD? Surely it would never get near Vista? Have Microsoft infiltrated the BIOS? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Beard
gord wrote: > i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with > windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this > strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfamiliar > with. live cds are very careful not to do anything that could hurt the > cu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-14 Thread Andrew Jenkins
Dave Morley wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:43 +, Chris Rowson wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote: >>> lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-14 Thread Dave Morley
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:43 +, Chris Rowson wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote: > > > lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert > > > them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not > > > damage any of their files

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-13 Thread Chris Rowson
> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote: > > lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert > > them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not > > damage any of their files. > > But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-13 Thread gord
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote: > lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert > them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not > damage any of their files. > But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Arnold
Farran, Farran Lee wrote: > lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert > them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not > damage any of their files. > But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come > back with errors, alth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-13 Thread Rob Beard
Farran Lee wrote: > lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert > them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not > damage any of their files. > But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come > back with errors, although I ha

[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?

2008-01-13 Thread Farran Lee
lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not damage any of their files. But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come back with errors, although I have never personally witnesse