Yesterday, I picked up a copy of VCom’s Partition Commander. The object was to get rid of the Linux partitions on my Compaq’s hard drive and, most importantly, replace the GRUB boot loader, which defaulted to Linux instead of Windows. Without a working video driver (adds ATi to my list of vendors who suck), I couldn’t use Linux except in command line mode. What’s the point?

So, now my hard drive is all NTFS all the time. I also ran the defragmentor, which took about 3 hours to complete. So now my laptop can boot properly without my having to hover over it and my files are all nice and tidy.

As far as Linux is concerned, I still have the old HP Omnibook. Unfortunately, that aging beast only has a 12″ screen, a 600MHz Celeron, 128MB of RAM and a 4Gb disk. But, at least it works. (ATi take note.) Also, unfortunately, I tried to update the SuSE Linux 8.2 on it to 9.3, but the installer complained that there wasn’t enough disk space available. The good news is that I had copied most everything to my 500gig Mvix drive, so doing a clean install is a possibility. Still, I hate the prospect of possibily overwriting some important files. I’ll have to give it yet another look-see before I jump into the deep end.

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