[ale] windows

[oloryn at benshome.net (Ben Coleman)]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:04:00 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

>The "recovery" disks for these
>OSs will hose the MBR and then start from scratch.  You will lose
>your Linux partitions -- and everything else on your hard
>drive. I believe there is a workaround, but you have to beat upon
>Microsoft to get it.

More like you have to go buy a retail version of the OS - another way
Microsoft gains extra revenue by getting people to pay two (or three!)
times for the same software.

Ben
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