Purely hypothetically, if someone found a Windows 7 Home Premium OEM DVD
and wanted to try it out, purely for research, on his machine that has
two linux distributions and XP Home already on it;

Would the OEM disk simply reformat the whole disk for itself without
asking (as some previous versions did)? or would he get the chance to
choose which partition it was temporarily installed on?

Derek Turner wrote:

> Purely hypothetically, if someone found a Windows 7 Home Premium OEM
> DVD and wanted to try it out, purely for research, on his machine
> that has two linux distributions and XP Home already on it;
>
> Would the OEM disk simply reformat the whole disk for itself without
> asking (as some previous versions did)? or would he get the chance to
> choose which partition it was temporarily installed on?

Every version of Windows for as long as I can remember has let you
choose which partition to use, & asked if you want to format it. I
don't know which version you think reformatted a whole disk without
asking, but I suspect you're wrong.

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On 30 May 2011 09:08:29 GMT, Derek Turner <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Purely hypothetically, if someone found a Windows 7 Home Premium OEM DVD
> and wanted to try it out, purely for research, on his machine that has
> two linux distributions and XP Home already on it;

> Would the OEM disk simply reformat the whole disk for itself without
> asking (as some previous versions did)? or would he get the chance to
> choose which partition it was temporarily installed on?

It would ask which partition to install itself in, I'm sure,
but I'm also fairly sure it would take over the MBR so you'd have to work
out how to re-install your Linux boot-loader.

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Derek Turner wrote:

> Purely hypothetically, if someone found a Windows 7 Home Premium OEM
> DVD and wanted to try it out, purely for research, on his machine
> that has two linux distributions and XP Home already on it;
>
> Would the OEM disk simply reformat the whole disk for itself without
> asking (as some previous versions did)? or would he get the chance to
> choose which partition it was temporarily installed on?

When I did this it asked where I wanted it putting, then made a folder
called 'Old Windows' or something similar, which had the full contents
of the old windows install on it. I never tried it as a dual-bbot 'cos
W7 just suited me far better and I deleted the old windows folder after
transferring documents etc.

I have no clue what it'd do to a Linux boot sequence though.

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"Derek Turner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Purely hypothetically, if someone found a Windows 7 Home Premium OEM DVD
> and wanted to try it out, purely for research, on his machine that has
> two linux distributions and XP Home already on it;
>
> Would the OEM disk simply reformat the whole disk for itself without
> asking (as some previous versions did)? or would he get the chance to
> choose which partition it was temporarily installed on?


If you're concerned download VMWare player, it's free and you can create a
vm to run Win 7 in

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On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:36:34 +0100, "M.Badger" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Without the verified backups, Windows will kill your machine, your first
>born, and cause you to contract TB. This may not be true.

It isn't true.

It's Ebola.

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On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:37:55 +0000, Krusty wrote:


> Every version of Windows for as long as I can remember has let you
> choose which partition to use, & asked if you want to format it. I don't
> know which version you think reformatted a whole disk without asking,
> but I suspect you're wrong.

Dos 6.22 certainly did that. So did the floppy-disk version of Win95. Not
sure about the CD of Win 95 as my mobo wouldn't boot from a CD-ROM then.
Win NT 3.51 and (I think) 4 did the same. This one my friend (ahem) said
started the installation without asking which partition.

Derek Turner wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:37:55 +0000, Krusty wrote:
>
>
> > Every version of Windows for as long as I can remember has let you
> > choose which partition to use, & asked if you want to format it. I
> > don't know which version you think reformatted a whole disk without
> > asking, but I suspect you're wrong.
>
> Dos 6.22 certainly did that.

No it didn't.

> So did the floppy-disk version of Win95.

No it didn't.

> Not sure about the CD of Win 95 as my mobo wouldn't boot from a
> CD-ROM then. Win NT 3.51 and (I think) 4 did the same.

No they didn't.


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On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:36:34 +0100, M.Badger <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <is02pn$p4s$(E-Mail Removed)>:

> Whatever you do, make damn sure you have a working backup of the MBR and any
> data you value.

> I have no experience of Windows 7 installs, but doing dual boots with 2k/XP
> has always needed a grub/lilo reinstall afterwards.

Nods vigorously to all except the "no experience" claim. TBH, I
don't recall exactly what I did when I put a legit (corporation) copy of
Win7 on the NetBook; I think I probably just said "sod it" and installed
the latest Ubuntu over what had previously been in the Linux partition.

I used to try to have separate partitions for everything, but got
caught out once when a new install of ubuntu wanted a larger /boot
partitiion. So these days I usually just reserve 3 for Linux; a sensibly
sized /, an adequate /swap and the rest for /home. That way you can keep
/home untouched for upgrades or new distros. I've also gone off
dual-boot, I rarely use it.

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On 30/05/2011 19:41, Krusty wrote:
> Derek Turner wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:37:55 +0000, Krusty wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Every version of Windows for as long as I can remember has let you
>>> choose which partition to use,& asked if you want to format it. I
>>> don't know which version you think reformatted a whole disk without
>>> asking, but I suspect you're wrong.
>>
>> Dos 6.22 certainly did that.
>
> No it didn't.
>
>> So did the floppy-disk version of Win95.
>
> No it didn't.
>
>> Not sure about the CD of Win 95 as my mobo wouldn't boot from a
>> CD-ROM then. Win NT 3.51 and (I think) 4 did the same.
>
> No they didn't.
>
>

Heh. The crn of Microsoft installations. I'm pretty sure the only
programs that format a disk without asking are called
virusses^H^H^H^Hviriii^H^^H^H malware.

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/Simon