VirtualBox

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 08/05/2014 09:33 AM, Dick Dowdell wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com
> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 5 August 2014 15:07, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org
>     <mailto:norman at littletank.org>> wrote:
>      > Thanks Liam and compdoc, I thought that I had read somewhere that
>     I would be
>      > unable to simply put my Widows 7 install disc into the drive and, hey
>      > presto, the partition would be reformatted and Windows 7
>     installed and ready
>      > for use. Have I got it wrong?
>
>
>     It's not magical or automatic. You have to back up anything you want
>     to keep, ensure you have a valid licence key and copies of any
>     programs you wish to reinstall, boot your PC from the media, run the
>     installation, select your existing Windows partition, format it,
>     install to that partition, then reinstall the Ubuntu bootloader
>     afterwards...
>
>     But it's perfectly doable. If you installed Ubuntu you should be able
>     to install Windows.
>
> >
>
> Sorry, Liam.  Bottom posting ceased to be the email norm a long time ago.
>
	In what world?

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