[AuckLUG] DELETING PARTITIONS(OR NEWBIE PLAYING WITH (Trevor van Bremen)

[Alan Nicholson]

On Friday 02 February 2007 12:00, Trevor Van Bremen wrote:
<SNIP.............. A whole heap of "stuff" about partitions> 

and the abbreviating of the header in my Digest made for the 
above "interesting" header as I received it. :-)

All jokes aside I think I almost understand that but I'll read it a couple 
more times to be sure before I do anything

and on Thursday 01 February 2007 01:38, Robert wrote:

<As long as you have the COA (Certificate of Authenticity) on the laptop 
(usually underneath its the label with the cd key on it) you can use any 
XP OEM CD to put windows back on at a later date if you don't have a CD 
download one or copy one.>

I never knew that!! I thought that the CD key used had to agree with the one 
on the actual CD (but what do I know anyway?)

Well there is a label with a CD key and I am pretty sure I 
have a WINXP "Backup" somewhere (probably the coaster I use under my 
beer :-) ) , so its nice to know I can at least reinstall if I need to. Still 
it would be nice to not have to go thru the setup process. Actually I seem to 
have collected a whole host of XP CDs including some Compaq OS CD and 
Recovery CDs. Not sure why I bothered but I think it was coz my son needed XP 
on the PC I gave him for Uni.

and on the same date daniel pointed out:

<Oh,and windows XP doesnt use fat16!>

but it seems Trevors treatise might provide the answer there. Its definitely 
XP Professional...and the CD key underneath bears that out. Anyway thanks to 
all of you for your responses. I'll take time out to assimilate it all.

If it all turns to custard and XP goes AWOL in the process then I sure won't 
be shedding any tears....no files I want on there anyway

Alan