From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 05/19/2012 09:48 AM, Adam wrote:   
   > Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >> On 05/18/2012 03:44 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >   
   >>> So what I want to do (when I get that next system) does   
   >>> sound possible, something like:   
   >>> 1) Boot up OEM Windows, create Windows recovery discs   
   >>> 2) Boot from live CD, change MBR from UEFI to BIOS (which wipes   
   >>> HD), repartition HD, copy Windows recovery discs to USB drive   
   >>> 3) Boot from USB drive, reinstall OEM Windows from it   
   >>> 4) Boot from Linux install discs and install it on HD   
   >>   
   >> I don't know if the copies of the recovery disks will work   
   >> as the ISO of the Windows Install.   
   >   
   > I don't know either, but my next system (later this year) will probably   
   > be an off-the-shelf HP with Windows. Perhaps things have changed, but   
   > this Compaq (2007) and my parents' Compaq (2011) didn't come with any   
   > discs at all, which I gather is unfortunately the usual practice. Both   
   > came with turnkey Windows, plus a recovery partition on the same HD,   
   > plus a program to let the user make /one/ set of recovery discs. Both   
   > recovery methods restore the original configuration, shovelware and all,   
   > although I'm not sure whether they insist on the original partition sizes.   
   >   
   >> This new system is a pain obviously and is intended to keep   
   >> us from doing what we are used to doing with Linux and Windows. It   
   >> might help some people avoid some problems but that remains to be   
   >> seen.   
   >   
   > I figure (hope) that as the months go on, some sort of solution or   
   > workaround will emerge from the Linux community. At least now I have a   
   > better idea of what to expect. BTW I originally replied in the "UEFI"   
   > thread you started, and hoped discussion of that would continue there.   
   > I'm not sure how to move this discussion back there, though.   
   >   
   > Adam   
      
   	Just post in that thread.  As for the 2007 version of restore   
   disks they will still be using NTFS as the Windows file-system not   
   the stuff for the Windows under UEFI, as described at the URL   
   previously given.   
   	You have to have a Windows computer that has the UEFI   
   instead of the BIOS to even begin to worry about this stuff.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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