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I have a tri-boot laptop running Win8, Win7 and Debian.
I want to change Debian to Mint17 since I hear it's more "layman" friendly.
Can I just format the Debian partition and install Mint in it's place or are there other pitfalls I should be aware of? I use Win8 as the boot manager and used EasyBCD to add Linux to the Win8 menu (I think).
You can simply install Mint over the Debian partition. Chances are, Mint will choose to install the GRUB2 bootloader, so you may have to manually reinstall the windows boot manager afterwards.
Having said that, GRUB2 should be able to detect any bootable windows partitions automatically.
If I remember, I ended up using the Windows 8 boot menu because of the UEFI. I can't remember all the details but it had to do with keeping a fully activated version of Windows8.
Install it the same way you installed Debian. The installer will probably insist on formatting the partition, so it's a waste of time to do it separately.
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