Please help these poor misguided souls

[Aloone_Jonez]

Hey guys, every couple months M$ Winbloze crashes on me because my registry goes bad on me. I'm almost ready to give up on M$ and install Linux. Do you guys have any suggestions before I format my hard drive?

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[Orethrius]

Backup your important files first.  You wouldn't want to lose them because of an OS switch.  Better yet, create a separate partition for them.

(sorry for the necroslap, but I figure this comment was better made late than never)

[Refalm]

The sad part of this, that your best option for a seperate data partition is FAT32, if you're planning to dual boot Linux and Windows.

By Microsoft not supporting Ext3, they are making Windows favourable in this case.

[SiMuLaCrUm]

Yeah, and I'm a member of the Microsoft Syternals forums, but I do not force open source down people's throats. I only use it for troubleshooting help.

[Aloone_Jonez]

The sad part of this, that your best option for a seperate data partition is FAT32, if you're planning to dual boot Linux and Windows.

By Microsoft not supporting Ext3, they are making Windows favourable in this case.

You can get freware ext3 drivers for Windows and full read/write support under Linux with NTFS-3G.