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Re: What is a clean install?
« Reply #30 on: December 02, 2011, 09:42:08 AM »
Quote from: patio on December 02, 2011, 09:35:18 AM
Enlighten me...

What User used Linux ? ?
Someone in an article you quoted ? ?
If so i didn't read the article...
Sorry for my oversight. Here is one. He fixed the problem, but he does not know how he did it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/re-installing-xp-after-ubuntu-mistake

The simple answer  is: XP install requires a small bit of hard drive space during setup initialization. RAW space will work.  The user had used all the drive space with Linux.
RULE: Never install Linux on a hard drive without leaning some bit of RAW space.
 Otherwise it is a PITA to go back to XP.
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Re: What is a clean install?
« Reply #31 on: December 02, 2011, 09:44:34 AM »
There was NOTHING in this discussion about a messed up Linux partition until you introduced it from one of your searches on this issue...

On top of that the insult mentioning a debilitating illness was totally uncalled for...
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Re: What is a clean install?
« Reply #32 on: December 02, 2011, 10:27:02 AM »
Quote from: patio on December 02, 2011, 09:44:34 AM
There was NOTHING in this discussion about a messed up Linux partition until you introduced it from one of your searches on this issue...

On top of that the insult mentioning a debilitating illness was totally uncalled for...
My apology. Is was uncalled for.
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Re: What is a clean install?
« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2011, 11:13:10 AM »
Accepted.
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Re: What is a clean install?
« Reply #34 on: December 02, 2011, 12:46:04 PM »
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what Microsoft published in the Knowledge base.
Where? you keep mentioning these sources. But have yet to show a link to one.
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Re: What is a clean install?
« Reply #35 on: December 06, 2011, 03:32:49 AM »
Geek, I haven't seen anything that you posted that actually makes sense on this.
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