-> If you are considering partitioning to mount windose and linux on the
-> same HDD; my sad experience cautions against. Two ecconomical drives
-> would be much better (seperate but unequal is quite ok herein 8-)

I've had many good experiences weith Win - Linux dual boot.
Several instances where damage occured and I repaired it losing nothing
with Linux.

Rest assured though that though there will be a number of partitions
on the new drive Windows will not inhabit the machine at all.

I had one last bad experience with that O.S. and I'm definately 
through with it.
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