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My desktop is officially four years old. Its a refurbished HP Pavilion desktop. In those four years it has only needed a single OS installation, putting Windows 2k over the original XP. It has a couple extra video cards, but other than that has entirely original hardware. This wonderful machine is the major reason that I lack the typical CS major's disdain for Wintel - it's given me no problems.
That said, I dedided it'd probably be time to revoke my trust a bit. I got an extra hard drive (gigabytes are down to four to the dollar, now) and the desktop is spending some time in internet quarantine, doing a full malware scan before I try to put it in. When I do, I'll see if it'll format as FAT32, in preparation for bigger plans. I'll back up all important data to there, then blast the current Windows install.
The current hard drive has a lurking recovery partition, containing everythin necessary for a complete (and legal, no less) Windows XP install. I hope to allow that install about half of the available space, and use the remaining space for a Fedora 5 install. The theory is that they'll both play nice with the FAT32 drive, where most of the important data will be anyway.
This is actually the least drastic of the plans I had in mind. Many of the rest involved new motherboards, too, via my employee connections to get nForce hardware. I can't honestly convince myself I'd use that, is the problem.
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That said, I dedided it'd probably be time to revoke my trust a bit. I got an extra hard drive (gigabytes are down to four to the dollar, now) and the desktop is spending some time in internet quarantine, doing a full malware scan before I try to put it in. When I do, I'll see if it'll format as FAT32, in preparation for bigger plans. I'll back up all important data to there, then blast the current Windows install.
The current hard drive has a lurking recovery partition, containing everythin necessary for a complete (and legal, no less) Windows XP install. I hope to allow that install about half of the available space, and use the remaining space for a Fedora 5 install. The theory is that they'll both play nice with the FAT32 drive, where most of the important data will be anyway.
This is actually the least drastic of the plans I had in mind. Many of the rest involved new motherboards, too, via my employee connections to get nForce hardware. I can't honestly convince myself I'd use that, is the problem.
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