[PLUG] any Linux install W8 gotchas

[MJang]

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 13:11 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013, fred james wrote:
> 
> > My old Compaq Evo finally died and I bought a Acer Aspire w/W8 installed.
> > I want to rid the machine of W8 without trashing any "system necessary"
> > files that might be on the hard drive.
> 
> Fred,
> 
>    Any 'system necessary' files will be Microsoft-specific. 

Just continue to proceed with caution. In some cases, there are "system
helpful" partitions; my Lenovo (T410) has an NTFS partition with some
diagnostic programs that -- if I'm understanding correctly (haven't
tested recently) -- can help recover from certain kinds of crashes. I
think my Dell e1405 had something similar.

But they were not "system necessary".

Thanks,
Mike