Re: [H] Vista to XP ?

2007-08-09 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:13 AM 09/08/2007, FORC5 wrote: A while back I remember a topic about it being legit for ppl buying systems with vista that they were entitled to down grade to XP. Have a unhappy customer, fortunately is a laptop and not one of my systems. Any info appreciated. You can legally do it

Re: [H] Question about removing WinXP partition from Ubuntu dual boot

2007-08-09 Thread Rick Glazier
Sounds like what I would try, after making an full spindle AcronisTrueImage10 image that includes a copy of track 0 along with MBR (if I had the space somewhere). Note that deselecting the Windows partition in Acronis also skips track 0 and the MBR.

Re: [H] Vista to XP ?

2007-08-09 Thread FORC5
thanks, being she has a laptop I am guessing she is out of luck. probably V basic. Why oh why so many different versions. fp At 01:53 AM 8/9/2007, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: At 02:13 AM 09/08/2007, FORC5 wrote: A while back I remember a topic about it being legit for ppl buying

Re: [H] Vista to XP ?

2007-08-09 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, FORC5 wrote: thanks, being she has a laptop I am guessing she is out of luck. probably V basic. Why oh why so many different versions. That's an easy one to answer: So they can charge for things that they previously bundled by default. Monopoly tactics, get your

Re: [H] Question about removing WinXP partition from Ubuntu dual boot

2007-08-09 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Brian Weeden wrote: It would be a pain to reinstall Ubuntu because I have made lots of modifications to the default install, not just installing software but actual config changes. I think my best bet would be to format the Windows partition, shrink it down to like 10 MB,