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How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the step-11-involves-a-hair-shirt dept.

the_phenom writes "Thinking of dual-booting your Windoze XP 17" Toshiba P25 laptop? Think again - this one 'uses a DVD with an already setup version of Windows XP Home and then transfers it to the notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus, dual-booting." This reminds me of the unfriendly practice on some PC builders' parts of including an OS "backup" only on a hard-drive partition.

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    1. Re:SHAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're not supposed to use irc.mozilla.org for crap like this. I am notifying the ircops of your presence. Dont expect to stay there for long.

    2. Re:SHAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      i thought it was funny

  2. I just watched "Gay Niggers From Outer Space" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What a bunch of crappy-crap-crap!

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    that was the dumbest parody i've ever seen.

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