On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm > that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole > disk away and reformats it like it was new from the factory. With > this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista onto the disk and save > the existing Gentoo install. that will have to be reloaded form > backups.
Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have given you a prompt. At my last job I got given a brand new Dell notebook with Windows on it. I had it 10 minutes when I took it into my Red Hat course room and switched on. A student was asking questions and I got distracted, so absent-mindedly got into the BIOS setup and changed the boot order. Next time I looked, Windows was *gone* and a full default RHEL 4 install was in place (!). No prompt, no warning, nadda, zip. The absence of Windows was welcome, the absence of a prompt was less so. Then again, I should have known better seeing as the idiot who set up the PXE server originally was me :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
