On 03/01/07, Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin@gmail.com> wrote:

On 03/01/07, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk@gmail.com> wrote:

> I really would reformat this PC but i need the OS to stay legal....

I don't understand? Have you got a valid license for the MS stuff? if
not then your not legal anyway, its irrelevant if the license fell off
the side of your box in a hurricane or the dog eat your paper one,
having a code key is not proof of a licensed box.

> I have managed to free up about 37.2Gb ...so i might use half of that for a
> linux distro...but from what i can tell i keep gettin errors when i try to
> install to that partition...

1. What are the errors?
2. Have you checked for bad blocks on that partition?

I'm stabbing in the dark here as you don't give an indication of what
the 'Errors' are. It wouldn't surprise me if the HDD was shagged if
you've been adding, merging and deleteing partitions over and over
again.

> ...one mistake in one of these linux setups and boom....

So do like I do, sit down with a pen and paper list the partitions
using DOS fdsk (or whatever) theres no shame in writing stuff down you
know even so called experts do it, you should be able to work out the
one you want. :-)

--
Dick Turpin
"Stand and deliver!"

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