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 :-)


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