<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">kogorman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some versions of Windows automatically and unconditionally reformat and occupy the entire hard drive</blockquote></div><br>This hasn't been true for many, many years at this point.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Nor does he have to reinstall grub, if he has a backup of his boot sector.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It is entirely possible to boot Ubuntu, or any other OS from the Windows boot loader.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Google is your friend.<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>--<br>W. Scott Lockwood III<div><br></div></div></div></div>
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