[wellylug] Purchasing a new laptop

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:59 +1100, Carl Turney wrote:
> Something I've seriously considered, when I get enough cash to buy a new 
> laptop, is...
> 
> Remove the Gates-infected hard disk and put in a safe place.
> 
> Put a new blank hard disk into the laptop.
> 
> Install a good operating system (e.g. some distro of LINUX).
> 
> Much later, put the original MS hard disk back in the laptop, just 
> before you sell it off to someone, when you yourself are moving up to a 
> newer laptop.  They'll be pleased with a pristine copy of Windoze, all 
> configured etc.

No need to buy a 2nd drive....

Just erase all the windows partitions when installing Linux. And when
you want to sell it, use the restore disks to load Windows back on.

(unless the pc vendor is too crappy to provide recovery disks)


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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