how install win w/o wiping the disk

[Doug]

On 07/11/2012 09:25 PM, Nick Bikkal wrote:

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>>> While we're at it if I may ask on this Ubuntu forum how does one uninstall Windows XP?
>>>
>>> Nick
>> Why not just format the partition?
>>
>> --doug
>>
>> Reality is I screwed up bad&  now have a powerful desk top that can do little that I want. I lost much of my work I had on both an old Ubuntu&  a WXP. Feel resigned to all this bad luck. Sigh. If possible I'd like to salvage some. I thought I had it all backed up on an external disk but it also proved negative. About 10 years of work&  pictures on it.
> Nick
Now you know how I felt when I let The Geek Squad work on my computer 
and tell me that the disk
was ng, AND IT WAS THE WRONG DISK which I then threw away!  I trust you 
know who the Geek Squad
works for.

--doug

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