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how to uninstal windows?

Posted on February 10, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

I no its a strange question I have 3 different versions of windows installed and I need to get rid of 2 of them w/o reformating the hard drive I’m open to all answers even if it has to do with linux I’m veary fumilear with different types of operating systems and live cds. i have windows xp home edition installed along with 2 windows madia centers one of witch is still in the setup area while the outher one works. I can not get into windows xp home edition its missing/crupted “system32hal.dll” I replaced the file with a new one from a fresh copy of windows and still nouthing. again I’m open to all answers
their all on the same partion
thx I got one answer but I cant get into windows xp home edition at all so I cant do a restore when I try to load up in windows xp home edition it says”windows could not start becaus the following files is missing or crrupt:
system32hal.dll
please reinstall a copy of the above file”

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Issues Uninstalling Ubuntu; Not recoginzing full size of partition after resizing?

Posted on December 31, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

I had an XP home and Ubuntu dual boot installation and I tried to uninstall Ubuntu by following this guide: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p18.htm.

I did the first step successfully and restored the windows boot loader with FIXMBR.

The second step however didn’t go so well. I used gparted on the Ubuntu Live CD to delete the Linux partitions but when to tried to resized the Windows NTFS partition from 37 GB to 75 GB it came up with an error. However when I rebooted and when back into gparted it appered as though it worked and showed the NTFS partition as being 75 GB. Though when I restarted into windows and checked the c: drive in My Computer it still showed the size as 37 GB. Though when I check the size in windows Diskpart it shows the size as 75 GB.

What am I doing wrong?

I don’t have to reformat after resizing, do I?

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Tagged boot, dual boot installation, guide, Home, installation, Issues, partition, size, Ubuntu, uninstall, Uninstalling

Which linux, Ubuntu or Mandriva…i am a complete novice?

Posted on December 20, 2011 by admin| 10 Comments

i have been looking at loading Linux on my 3 pc’s at home, basically for security purposes, i know there is little risk of a virus and hacker etc, i find microsoft bloatware slows down too easily as with any antivirus slows down a pc, so i have downloaded a few live cd and have narrowed it to ubuntu or Mandriva, i want the easiest to use and find all my drivers for, i am initially going to do it on my laptop and then follow suit with the desktops when i am up to speed with it, which is better, Ubuntu or Mandriver, remember i am a complete novice with linux

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Tagged antivirus, bloatware, desktops, HACKER, Home, Laptop, Linux, loading, loading linux, mandriva, Microsoft, novice, risk, security, security purposes, Ubuntu, virus

Setup Roaming Users?

Posted on November 21, 2011 by admin| Leave a comment

I was wondering if there was a way to setup roaming user profiles i have three pcs a laptop a desktop both running xp home and finally a computer i just got i was going to use kinda like a server i mapped a network drive on it and was wandering if i could use it to store all the user profiles for the roaming users…it is running xp pro?? i dont know if that will work if not will a linux live cd work or something….Thanks in advance

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Tagged computer, desktop, Home, kinda, Laptop, Linux, Linux Live CDs, Roaming, Server, setup, thanks in advance, user, user profiles, way