A few days ago, I downloaded wheezy, verified the cksum, then burnt 3
DVDs.
my computer had dual boot xp sp3 and mint. I decided to try Debian and
I wanted to over write the mint install. Debian choose my xp partition
to install itself, so I stopped it before it did such. I backed up the
install and I tried to set up another partition manually. That did not
work.
I rebooted and could not get into xp. So, I ran mint off the DVD and
did more internet research on installing Debian. I tried from scratch
to install Debian many more times, each failed.
I took many screen shots at each issue while trying to install Debian.
I still could not boot into xp.
I gave up on the Debain install. I tried to fix the xp install by
running the xp disk fixmbr. That did not work. I then ran the fixboot.
Neither worked.
I wiped my entire HDD and repartitioned and reinstalled xp sp3.
Im ready to try again to install Debian on the unformatted partition.
I dont want to have the above problem again. So, after I get Debian
installed on this dual boot computer, if i decide that I dont want
Debian, how do I remove it? How can I then try another linux flavor
w/o loosing my xp?
c partition 52.4g was xp sp3
d partition 83.9g is my personal data files.
unformatted 113.7g was partitioned by mint into 68g and 2g swap.
Now its set up as above, except
c is 63g xp sp3
d is 117g my data files
unformatted is 70g
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