Help with installation

[Michael White]

Thanks for the reply, however I am not looking to back up anything. I just want a clean wipe of everything that is on the HDD. I can't afford another HDD right now so this one will have to do. I want to fully erase everything that has to do with Windows and all file data back to the original drive so that I can then load Ubuntu on it. I don't care what gets deleted (except whatever I need to allow me to start from scratch).

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, dean <deanubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:


From: dean <deanubuntu at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help with installation
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:25 AM


Michael White wrote:
> Hi, I have been thinking about making a switch from Windows to Linux 
> for awhile now. Yesterday my desktop caught a really bad case of 
> spyware. Now all I want to do is format my hard drive and load Ubuntu 
> onto the desktop. I was wondering if you guys would be able to assit 
> me in how to do so. I was running Windows XP SP3. Any help would be 
> appreciated.
>
>
If your thinking of doing a totally switch with no Windows I would 
probably recommend getting a spare drive to back your data up so you can 
convert any drives to ext3/ext4.  I find NTFS-3G to be a CPU hog and it 
isn't needed if your going 100% linux.

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