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Farewell Ubuntu… but coming back soon!

After 50 solid days using Ubuntu, I finally found a reason to switch back to Windows…  I needed MS Publisher and Adobe Premiere Pro really badly.  I have an assignment that required me to use MS Publisher - pamphlet designing for science.  Plus, I had eisteddfod videos to edit (which I had already done - painfully on another computer).

Basically, I attempted to do a dual-boot install.  That didn’t work.  Because the first operating system installed on the HDD was Mac OSX Leopard, the partitioning was done in GPT rather than MBR… which was required in W7 (for 32 bit anyway).  Although, I do have two separate hard drives installed on the computer.  The second HDD did have MBR partitioning… but didn’t have access to the boot partition or anyway of booting up without changing the Disk 0 to MBR too.

What I did was replaced the 40GB HDD with Ubuntu installed and replaced it with another 40GB HDD.  We do have a stock-pile of 40GB IDE HDDs - so that was handy :D

Most of my stuff was already in my Dropbox - so all I did was a tarball of the “File System” on Ubuntu for future use (if I ever need to access it).

So far, Office 2010, Dropbox, Java, Adobe Reader X, Avast!, iTunes and Notepad++ has been installed.  I plan on installing Adobe CS3 tomorrow :D

I’ll be going back to Ubuntu as soon as possible.  Perhaps using a WBUI instead.  That way - I can safely have two OSes on one computer without fiddling with GRUB… Okay, time to get some sleep for tomorrow’s RE test :P