Microsoft force me into piracy [rant]

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phppage
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Did it come with XP on to start with? If so you can order the recovery disks from Packard Bell. Their contact details are on Microsofts website :)
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it did indeed! I still have the original XP instal it's just a dual boot with Ubuntu...so theres 4 partitions now on a tiny drive I need to start from scratch really.

Windows XP ntfs partition
Win XP INstall partition
Swap Disk ext3 partition
Ubuntu ? partition

I shall drop them a line thank you for being helpful and constructive.
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ok, guys. Time to cool your tempers here. Leave the meta-discussion. If you have something valuabe to share, share it, if not, don't.
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What about partition-magic?
Can't that help out?

Or the *nix open-source one who's name escapes me...
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Yeah I can use GPARTED but the problem is the fact that my MBR is on the linux partition so if I delete it, My PC won't boot onto any drive...If I knew more about LINUX I'd empty that particular partition and just keep the MBR...help anyone?
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