Hello!
While I'm thinking about it, let me welcome you to Linux Lite. There are many experts here, and their solutions may be better, but here's mine:
If your Windows system is just S-L-O-W, THAT can be fixed short of reinstalling Windows. You simply remove the mess that slowed it down in the first place, as opposed to reinstalling 7, then downloading and installing Service Pack 1, 150+ post-SP1 updates, AND your previous Windows drivers and applications.
In the past, I have covered some of this in the forums, but if you PM me, I'll tell you what utilities I use to do this. However, if you have had viruses, adware, or malware trash the registry to the point where Windows Update will not install updates and/or pukes in the process, you will most likely need to reinstall Windows. Otherwise, cleaning a PC up fixes 'em 90 to 95 percent of the time.
Windows 7's installer does not recognize Linux partitions. It will just ignore them, asking whether or not you want to reinstall into the same partitions the old system used.
THAT is the EASY part. The HARD part is that Windows will rewrite the GRUB bootloader, making your Linux partitions inaccessible. You will then either have to boot from and run a boot-repair LiveCD/USB, or boot into a Linux Lite LiveCD, add the boot-repair PPA, then install and run boot-repair to restore GRUB. Boot-repair will ALMOST always fix GRUB-related errors.
One can Google 'boot-repair' for more details...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
While I'm thinking about it, let me welcome you to Linux Lite. There are many experts here, and their solutions may be better, but here's mine:
If your Windows system is just S-L-O-W, THAT can be fixed short of reinstalling Windows. You simply remove the mess that slowed it down in the first place, as opposed to reinstalling 7, then downloading and installing Service Pack 1, 150+ post-SP1 updates, AND your previous Windows drivers and applications.
In the past, I have covered some of this in the forums, but if you PM me, I'll tell you what utilities I use to do this. However, if you have had viruses, adware, or malware trash the registry to the point where Windows Update will not install updates and/or pukes in the process, you will most likely need to reinstall Windows. Otherwise, cleaning a PC up fixes 'em 90 to 95 percent of the time.
Windows 7's installer does not recognize Linux partitions. It will just ignore them, asking whether or not you want to reinstall into the same partitions the old system used.
THAT is the EASY part. The HARD part is that Windows will rewrite the GRUB bootloader, making your Linux partitions inaccessible. You will then either have to boot from and run a boot-repair LiveCD/USB, or boot into a Linux Lite LiveCD, add the boot-repair PPA, then install and run boot-repair to restore GRUB. Boot-repair will ALMOST always fix GRUB-related errors.
One can Google 'boot-repair' for more details...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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