<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bart Silverstrim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsilver@chrononomicon.com">bsilver@chrononomicon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Ashley Benton wrote:<br>
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> Anybody can get it wrong that why you are ask to do a back up before to try<br>
> anything. Doing it or not is the person own decision. I did it before I<br>
> installed Ubuntu the first time and it was a great idea because my hard<br>
> drive broke a few weeks later. (nothing to do with Ubuntu). I am still doing<br>
> regular back up and put everything on DVDs when I want to update the system<br>
> (7.10 to 8.04) like that in case of trouble I just redoo a clean install.<br>
> And yes I use the vendor-specific restore which bring me back the computer<br>
> as it was when it was sold. No way to do anything else after my son got a<br>
> virus on the computer, nothing is working anymore. No worries about it the<br>
> data are on my computer using Ubuntu and his is empty except for his games.<br>
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</div>I was just pointing out in a conversation about the installers that<br>
vendors tweak their installers to wipe your computer to sales-state,<br>
while a full copy of Windows will ask you about your partition scheme<br>
and where and how to install Windows. That's all.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>If I understood correctly what you mean I had no idea about that. I thought that buying a computer with Windows on it and buying Windows separately were the same, but I never bought Windows by itself and I won't so...<br>
Anyway I prefer Ubuntu to Windows (you won't believe me less troubles with Ubuntu. It is much easier than Windows. At least once you have learn the basics), and yes still learning everyday. <br>Meg<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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