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gezza:
Hi to all,
My laptop HP DV7 series has had so many drives replaced in the last year, the comapany says it will be replaced.
The new system comes with the dreaded Win8 installed.
My question is:--- Will PCLinuxOs work on this system?
Many thanks for your thoughts on this matter.
Gezza

horusfalcon:
Personally, unless it's a warranty issue, I'd remove Win8 forthwith.  It might do well to view Brian Boyko's Windows 8 Animated Review on Youtube:

Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation

I say your best route if you must keep Win 8 through warranty period is to obtain a second drive somewhere and boot Linux from it, either by swapping it into the bay or by using it in a USB enclosure.

Of course, before doing any of this it would be wise to create an image of the system or otherwise obtain a backup/recovery disk set/etc.

If you must dual-boot, see if HP will let you get Windows 7 instead of Windows 8.

Later ON,
D

µT6:
"My question is:--- Will PCLinuxOs work on this system?"

you are not saying what system so we can't say if it will or not because we don't know what system isç

about dualboot with windows 8, if the uefi bios will let you load pclinux then yes, if not, then you will have problems there

horusfalcon:
 µT6 makes some good points here.  Generally, PCLinuxOS has good compatibility, but it will be helpful to know what system we're dealing with in order to make more than general prognostications and pronouncements (such as I did in my previous post...)

Later On,
D

smileeb:
My suggestion is to try a live CD of PCLinuxOS to see if it will boot from it and run.
The computer they send you may have that MS lock out of other boot-able CDs.

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