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Subject: [ale] GParted & unallocated space
From: ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:46:19 -0400
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On Sat October 2 2010, Jim Philips wrote:
> So, I backed up the recovery partition to DVD's and then deleted it from my
> hard drive. I now have Ubuntu installed. Way more trouble than it should
> have been. My co-worker is a long-time IBM employee. He says that HP is
> very much in bed with Microsoft and deliberately builds its PC's to make
> Linux installation difficult. I believe him.

Dell isn't any better, even though they do seel Linux boxes, the regular boxes 
have that partition for restoring WIN OS.. I think originally mine had 2 
partitions, one restore, one diagnostic.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
http://usdebtclock.org/

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