Rough

Okay, I've had a rough night.

My girlfriend became my ex, but I saw it coming because I figured she was cheating on me while away at school (various hints)... sokay... I was kinda seeing another girl at the same time.

Then I got ditched by some friends to go the bar.

So I'm enjoying a pint of jagermeister with my cat.


Anywhoozle... I'm about to install Linux on my Dell E1505 and hopefully it will kill the night for me. I have a Nvidia GPu and Intel Wireless Card. I also have WPA PSK and wireless with Belkin G router.

I am also planning to partition my harddrive I have 135 gigs (rated 160), with 90 free. I am thinking I may need 30 gigs for Ubuntu 7.04. Now in the event I want to remove the Linux partition will I be able to do so easily? I don't want to reinstall Vista all over again. Will Vista be able to reabsorb the partitioned part?

Aside from these questions should there be anything I should be concerned about? Before I go forth?

 

Yes linux is not bad to get ride of just del the partion and rewrite mbr depend on what os you got laptop mind not sure how this apply cause you dell problay has it recovery partion and media directed

 

a fixmbr from Vista recovery will reload Window's bootloader, then you can format the partition freely to remove Linux.

 

what is fixmbr or mbr? and does it matter if I have a media direct?

 

Also will I void my warranty doing this?

 

I don't know that it should void your warranty.

If you were to install Linux and remove Windows entirely, you might have trouble getting service over the phone because the techs typically ask you to diagnose hardware problems in Windows. But otherwise, it should not affect your warranty.

 

Okay, well I just tried to install and there was a failure. And it looks like there is like 4 partitions on my hard drive.

I'm very confused.

I have Media Direct, Vista, Recovery, and something else that's 51 megabytes.

 

The 51MB is a utilities partition. It has all the info for memory tests and all that. If all 4 of your partitions are already listed as primary partitions, you'll probably have to delete one. BIOS only supports up to 4 primary partitions on one drive.

 

Lol my friend, Ubuntu is not going to solve your problems here. In fact, don't drink alone, invite some people over!

 

Okay how do I delete the recovery? And Can I delete the Media Direct? (most useless thing ever).

How do i Get rid of all these silly partitions and not ruin the current configuration I have for Vista?