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Francis Marsden
My comp was originally assembled with two hard drives, with XP Home loaded
on one of them. When I first looked at the second drive, it had a few files
on them, but I paid no attention to them. At one point, I had problems with
the system, so I reformated the main drive and reinstalled XP on it. During
the reinstall I always made sure to select the main drive when presented
with that option, and everything works fine. I don't remember being given
any options with regard to the second drive, and I suppose the reinstall was
default in that respect. There are again a few files on the second drive
(total about 150mb) , but I have no idea if the files were recreated during
the reformat/reinstall. Looking at the files now, I see that many of them
have to do with "Visual C++ redistrubutable", ie eulas, installers etc.
(Sounds like a programming language to me, but why would I need one? Don't
remember paying for one.) There are also a couple of folders, one with what
looks like a long random name (3a2d457...etc.) I suppose the name is random
to protect it from being mistaken for something else. Inside that folder
there are two more folders, one labeled "amd64" and the other "i386" . I
just read somewhere that "i386" probably contains important files. (My
processor is Intel, not AMD, and XP Home is 32 bit, not 64). The other
folder besides the random name one is labeled "binaries". In that folder
there are just two very small files, one labeled _svdir.VBS (12kb) and the
other " SOAPVDIR.CMD" (1kb). I want to install Ubuntu on the spare drive,
and obviously I am going to burn these files onto a cdr before deleting
them. I don't want to partition the spare drive, just empty it and install
Ubuntu whole onto it. Will my XP Home still work if I delete these files?
Thanks in advance.
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on one of them. When I first looked at the second drive, it had a few files
on them, but I paid no attention to them. At one point, I had problems with
the system, so I reformated the main drive and reinstalled XP on it. During
the reinstall I always made sure to select the main drive when presented
with that option, and everything works fine. I don't remember being given
any options with regard to the second drive, and I suppose the reinstall was
default in that respect. There are again a few files on the second drive
(total about 150mb) , but I have no idea if the files were recreated during
the reformat/reinstall. Looking at the files now, I see that many of them
have to do with "Visual C++ redistrubutable", ie eulas, installers etc.
(Sounds like a programming language to me, but why would I need one? Don't
remember paying for one.) There are also a couple of folders, one with what
looks like a long random name (3a2d457...etc.) I suppose the name is random
to protect it from being mistaken for something else. Inside that folder
there are two more folders, one labeled "amd64" and the other "i386" . I
just read somewhere that "i386" probably contains important files. (My
processor is Intel, not AMD, and XP Home is 32 bit, not 64). The other
folder besides the random name one is labeled "binaries". In that folder
there are just two very small files, one labeled _svdir.VBS (12kb) and the
other " SOAPVDIR.CMD" (1kb). I want to install Ubuntu on the spare drive,
and obviously I am going to burn these files onto a cdr before deleting
them. I don't want to partition the spare drive, just empty it and install
Ubuntu whole onto it. Will my XP Home still work if I delete these files?
Thanks in advance.
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