[mail] linux/windows partitioning on newer laptops

[Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan]

Rob Becker wrote:
> Unless things have changed drastically in the past few months, most
> restore disks give you very few options, but will pretty simply reload
> the entire originally installed OS and apps.  Usually those disks just
> blow away the entire disk and reload the factory image.  XP does take a
> hardware snapshot and require you to activate with it.  I am not sure if
> you will run into problems with reactivating if you need to rebuild your
> machine from the restore disk, but you may want to limit the number of
> times you do that.  Good luck with your build.  Let us know how things
> go for you.
> Thanks.
> Rob

More recent restore disks give you 2 or 3 options. One is a full restore 
to the way the factory delivered.  Another is to do that, but without 
remaking partitions.  The third is to just reload over existing 
installation to recover missing files.  Sometimes only one of the last 
two are options.
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