Sunday, September 8, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Windows 8 and Linux install

 


On Sep 7, 2013 4:39 PM, <g.linuxducks@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am only recommending this as apparently it seems somehow you went ahead and cold-cokked installed Linux as dual boot with Windows 8. [....] Did you disable Windows secure Boot – 8? Then question is who did? It is possible some less than genuine manufacturer has moved to circumvent this and release the Windows PC without protection enabled as a quote convenience to the user – which would leave your brand new latest Windows OS in the stone age as an Windows XP machine without protections offered since then.
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Please do not spread "doom and dread" messages of fear without at least citing your source. It would be nice also if the source were fact-based rather than op.ed.

> I strongly! recommend that you wipe the disk by easily in-place reinstalling Windows 8 and start from scratch!

If the bios is in legacy mode, how is reinstalling Windows going to change anything?  It also seems to me that if there is software broken, it would be the boot-OS that needs a firmware update rather than a problem with Windows. 

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