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Jonathan Melhuish wrote: | On Monday 09 August 2004 23:27, Simon Waters wrote: | |>The ACER restore CD's has an undocumented option to restore to the |>existing partition structure - worth asking the people who supplied it |>if this is possible, even if unsupported. | | | You mean leave the existing partition table alone?
The problem is when Windows goes wrong, which it does surprisingly often you'll need to reinstall, and if you've repartitions reinstalling Windows from these kind of disk usually means destroying the partition table again (if you believe the manual).
|>Not sure why you need removal media if it will take CDs. But I'd test |>with Knoppix or similar a lot before doing it, otherwise I assume it is |>a vanilla Debian install? | | | Erm, forgive me if I'm barking up the wrong tree (it's after my bedtime), but | aren't CDs removable?
Removal yes, but they aren't storage unless it is a CD writer - if it doesn't have CD how are you suppose to use the XP recovery CD?
| The only removable storage I have is the hard disk - I guess I could probably | transplant the hard disk into my other laptop (which has a CD-Rom drive) and | just install it that way. That might be easiest.
Might be worth getting another hard drive then you can swap them to chose an OS.
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