[AuckLUG] HELP NEEDED TO UNINSTALL

[Kent Wilkinson]

The 1kb partition will be an extended partition to allow more than 4
normal partitions. you should be able to use cfdisk to delete the linux
partitions with out affecting the windows partition. if you have a win
boot floppy you can use fdisk /mbr to remove lilo or grub (not sure if
this can be done with cfdisk), then you should be able to boot into
windows as normal or install linux and lilo or grub to give boot menu.
It would be way safer to just buy a second harddrive and install linux
on that. You can pick them up pretty damn cheap these days. Your wife
could use wine or cedega to run win apps, they ain't perfect but i have
been able to run most win apps i've tried with one or the other.

cheers 

Kent

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:24 +1300, Alan Nicholson wrote:
> I have a spare PC that I have been using to install various Linux Distros to 
> try out. It also has a legal copy of WIN XP installed.
> 
> My wifes PC (running XP)has finally expired with a WORM despite running 
> Antivirus updated everynight, Zone Alarm, Adaware & SpyBot. So she has agreed 
> if I leave XP on my spare machine for her "just in case" she will allow me to 
> install either Suse10.1 or Kubuntu. I also intend to install Crossover Office 
> to make it as painless as possible for her to move away from XP
> 
> It appears there are the following Partitions:(checked in Kubuntu)
> 
> Partition		Size		Mt Point	Type		Dev
> 
> 1			17.6Gb					hda1(assume this is XP)
> 2			1Kb						hda2	
> 3			6.3Gb	/		ext3		hda3 enabled (assume Kubuntu)
> 4			996.2Mb					hda5
> 5			12.1Gb					hda6(suspect Suse10)
> 6			313.7Mb none				hda7enabled  (suspect Kubuntu Swap)
> 
> I have made some assumptions on what each partition is but really may be 
> wildly astray. I have no idea what hda2 on partition 2 is.
> 
> My wife is a contractor and frequently works in companies that have software 
> that will only run under XP- or will only allow MS products to connect to 
> their network she has to have XP available .. This is a legal OEM copy but I 
> have no CD to use for a reinstall.
> 
> Problem...How do I uninstall existing Kubuntu and Suse 10 so that I can do a 
> fresh install BUT LEAVE XP INTACT!!!!
> 
> This is a MAJOR advance in convincing her to try Linux so I need help.
> 
> Alan
> 
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