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[Matt_B]

I wouldn't be so sure, I made the same assumption before and it blasted the entire drive.

It was arranged so that the setup file on the recovery partition could only be launched by the actual Windows installation on the main partition, and effectively just overwrites whatever is on the main partition. So it's never a clean install.

It sounds as if that's the way this netbook is setup.

Either way the XP installation wouldn't run from the USB stick, so I have drawn a line under it and told him to take it back to wherever he got it from and have them sort it.

 

[Macky]

Either way the XP installation wouldn't run from the USB stick, so I have drawn a line under it and told him to take it back to wherever he got it from and have them sort it.

In fairness, it's probably the only way forward. If the main install is trashed, I can't see any way that you could restore anything.

You could just wipe the drive and install Mint for him :icon_bigg

 

[Matt_B]

In fairness, it's probably the only way forward. If the main install is trashed, I can't see any way that you could restore anything.

You could just wipe the drive and install Mint for him :icon_bigg

That wouldn't go down well!

 

[Macky]

That wouldn't go down well!

A cousin of mine used to ring me every few months to 'fix' her laptop (again) which generally involved reinstalling XP for her.

Eventually, the CD drive packed up and so I couldn't reinstall XP and the only thing I could do was install Mint off of a flashdrive.
I renamed the Firefox icon to 'Internet', gave it back to her and left her off. That was about a year ago and she hasn't bothered me since, she loved it with all the visual effects