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"However, whenever I used to install Linux along with Windows, it'd always mess up my Windows installation a few days later" That's the confusing part, it's ce
by jiggy2011 14y ago
"However, whenever I used to install Linux along with Windows, it'd always mess up my Windows installation a few days later"
That's the confusing part, it's certainly possible to wipe out a partition by accident during install but to have it magically overwrite data at a later date is very odd.
- toyg 14y agoI guess he must have tried to mount NTFS partitions with some buggy filesystem driver, like the notorious default-but-deprecated kernel NTFS module. Either that or he's just confusing MBR and MFT. His English is dubious at various stages, so it might as well be. Still, not a HN-worthy post, I wonder how it managed to hit the front-page -- everyone on holiday already?
- MalphasWats 14y agoI did this once. I installed Ubuntu on a new laptop, resizing the disk partition as I went. When I switched back to Windows, I realised I had left it hibernated and the partition resize upset it very much. A day or so later, I tried to install some sound drivers in Ubuntu and somehow managed to uninstall xwindows entirely (I learnt to read and think before typing stuff in off a web site :) A day later I rebuilt from the windows install disk and left things alone. I keep Linux on my servers, it's much happier there!