Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:07:01 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop@gmail.com> Cc: 'Steve Bertrand' <steve@ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!! Message-ID: <20090813040701.34245f03.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <002701ca1b59$b3e132c0$1ba39840$@com> References: <980215.56754.qm@web58307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090812130546.GA3672@marge.bs.l> <4A82C3DD.7040209@ibctech.ca> <002701ca1b59$b3e132c0$1ba39840$@com>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:32:20 -0400, "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop@gmail.com> wrote: > Correct, and counter to another posters statement that Windows attempts to > wipe entire disks when installing. Yes, that's the default choice, which is > perfectly reasonable, but no Windows Setup will erase entire disks without > plenty of warnings and give users the opportunity to keep existing > partitions, including types it does not recognize. The average "Windows" user does not read what's on the screen anyway, so he will always "next". :-) > Since Windows 2000, the > Setup program allows for deletion of partitions, creating one or more new > partitions, formatting them, etc. Even DOS could do that. > Good luck to the original poster; maybe try out FreeBSD on another machine, > or when the laptop is too old to run modern versions of Windows. It usually is as soon as it is sold. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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