[Tfug] Microsoftware wars on my computer

[sitkaa at email.arizona.edu]

Update:

I have been able to delete most files from the Vista infected disk. However,
Microsoft won't let me reformat it using any Microsoft program I currently
have. I used to have a DOS boot disk around here, but I think it has
dissappeared, besides I don't have a floppy drive.

I'm gonna look for solutions online. Any suggestions?

I'm also still trying to fgure out the video signal compatibility issue. Is
there some setting I need to set things to get an Ubuntu screen?






Quoting Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com>:

> Ubuntu should take care of this $%*$%! that the Vista bootloader is causing
> you - when you format the hard drive, it should disappear.
>
> Let us know how it works out - and thanks for the Vista update...I was going
> to test the beta out at work
>
> -Chris
>
> On 6/16/06, sitkaa at email.arizona.edu <sitkaa at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like I am gonna be paying alot more attention to this board for
>> awhile.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Two days ago I followed Microsoft's recommendation, and updated
>> everything,
>> installed their newest, latest and greatest whatsits. Among them was MS
>> Vista.
>>
>> My recommendation for anyone thinking of upgrading is: DON'T!!! Vista
>> works very
>> poorly, conveniently deleting competitive non-M$ program files (oops, it
>> is a
>> beta, you know), and generally not working worth a flip. Whatever security
>> reasons there are to upgrade, I cannot imagine them being worth the
>> problems
>> that program incurs.
>>
>> Vista alters the hard disk's Master Boot Record, making it very hard to
>> remove.
>> I had not the expertise to remove it myself, and couldn't figure out how
>> to do
>> a rollback to XP. Nor did I have the patience to spend days, weeks trying
>> to
>> figure it out. I went out and bought another (blank, unformatted) hard
>> drive,
>> set it as the primary, and have been reloading most of my old programs
>> back on.
>> It has been an incredible excuse to clean up the system, update the
>> drivers,
>> etc. That was all day yesterday. Thank you, Microsoft.
>>
>> At this point, I don't care what it takes. I am migrating to something,
>> anything
>> else.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So I have two hard drives. The first is set up with XP and several years
>> worth
>> of associated files and whatnots.
>>
>> The second disk is gonna be blank, as soon as I figure out how to delete
>> all the
>> Microsoft files that Microsoft is not allowing me to delete (I don't have
>> enough
>> privaleges to remove them from my old hard drive - I hope reformatting it
>> will
>> satisfy care of the need for privelges). The second drive is also
>> formatted
>> with the newer Vista Master Boot Record, which apparently can be a nasty
>> cur to
>> work with. I would like to use this disk for linux programs.
>>
>> So I downloaded and wrote an ISO of Ubuntu (it looks like a good place for
>> noobe
>> to start), just to check it out, see if I can run the program. Well it
>> turns
>> out, I can't. When I reboot to this disk, my monitor comes up with an
>> error
>> that says, in effect, it can't read the video signal. I suppose it could
>> be the
>> video card or the monitor.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Too sum:
>>
>> Is the Vista Master Boot Record gonna be problem in converting the second
>> disk
>> to Linux?
>>
>> Can I simply reformat the second disk with GRUB or LILO, or do I do that
>> with
>> Ubuntu, or does the Ubuntu program have the GRUB or LILO built in?
>>
>> How can I overcome the video signal problem?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> System = Dell Dimension 9100
>> CPU = Dual core 2.8
>> RAM = 1.5 gig PC4200
>> Hardrive controller = SATA
>> C: = SATA II 160 gig (the new one)
>> F: = SATA 80 gig
>> Monitor = Dell 1905FP
>> Video Card = Radeon X300 SE 128MB Hypermemory
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, in advance for your help.
>> Michael
>>
>>
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> Chris Robbins
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