I finally deleted my Windows XP recovery partition about a week ago.

pr_deltoid · 07-06-2010, 08:24 AM

I've been using Linux for around a year and a half with no need for Windows, so I finally deleted my Windows XP recovery partition. I'm finally 100% free of Windows and no longer have it feeding off of the blood of my first partition.

entz · 07-06-2010, 09:50 AM

good for you

i hope you don't regret it ...lol nah i'm just kidding !

cheers

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-06-2010, 10:10 AM

Well, good. I deleted it much sooner after installing Linux, but that's because Window$ failed anyway.

MrCode · 07-06-2010, 02:20 PM

Eh, I still keep XP on my Ubuntu desktop's primary IDE drive, but I almost never use it...only reason I don't get rid of it is because I still might boot into it for games.

My other computers are 100% Linux, though, AFAIK.

brianL · 07-06-2010, 02:41 PM

I've still got "real" XP Pro on my laptop, and "virtual" XP Pro in VBox on my desktop. I boot into them now and then, for updates and to remind myself how superior Linux is.

damgar · 07-06-2010, 03:28 PM

I'm personally hunting my XP install disk to install in Vbox so I can upgrade my wife's Iphone. I hate apple.

dv502 · 07-08-2010, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prdeltoid

I've been using Linux for around a year and a half with no need for Windows, so I finally deleted my Windows XP recovery partition. I'm finally 100% free of Windows and no longer have it feeding off of the blood of my first partition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaGwI7GjlA

Alexvader · 07-08-2010, 07:11 PM

Actually, the first thing i do after logging in a PC i buy with preinstalled W$, is Shift+Delete NTLDR... if it is ( used to be XP )

ooopssss... ROFL

Since Vista and 7 I no longer have the patience it takes to perform a big-time screw up of W$... I just proceed with a *Nix install... Solaris, Slackware or Arch....