[ltp] Re-install default OS on a specified partition disk

[Ayaz Ahmed Khan]

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Guillermo Latorre typed:

> Now, I have my Debian with many important information and I can't lose
> anything. I have also a 4GB disk primary partition empty, so I could
> install Windows there. I know the Windows System which came with my T41
> is staying in my hard disk, no Install-CD's from IBM, so I can Install
> Windows just entering on Access IBM (Predesktop Area) at the boot time
> and selecting the utility "install Windows" (or similar name).
>
> - But... will this program ask me where partition to install Windows? I
> have to be sure before.
> I can't put on risk any data.
> - Can I phone IBM and ask for a Windows Install CD for my laptop?

IIRC, Windows will install only if a partition its fdisk utility can
see exsits.  It won't touch any of the existing Linux partitions.
Things may have changed since I last played with Windows, but that was
pretty much the way things used to be then.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan, unixforge.org/~ayaz/

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping
 on to the grand fallacy."
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