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Hi, Nev Yes point taken apologies. So with the recovery disk it's a clean install then which means also installing 3 lots of service packs which is what I wanted to avoid. I'm sure she can live with it for the time being especially as XP is not the future anyway. Regards, Doug.

Hi, KenB and PLastic NEV In my machine it has two Linux packages but I have a friend who has XP and I have added Peppermint OS for her as well. Unfortunately there is a problem with her laptop that means although video is fine using Peppermint there is no audio like if you are using iplayer for example. Updating the BIOS is possible but highly risky apparently so currently she is using XP just for watching iplayer or Youtube and Peppermint for everything else as it's much quicker than XP. XP also has one or two error messages when it boots showing it can't find this or that file (DLL files I think) is it possible to repair XP using her recovery disc do you think. I don't want to have to re-install XP from scratch for obvious reasons. It doesn't matter if Peppermint is also deleted at the same time as I can re-install it easily afterwards. Regards. Doug.

Hi, KenB Thanks for responding. Yes the two OS are on separate partitions as you rightly say do you know how I could delete or format the partition for the OS that I want to update? How would it work if it was Windows XP (say) and a Linux OS for example would the principle be the same in both cases? Cheers.

Hi, everyone I have a small Asus netbook which is running a Debian 4 OS and also Linux Mint. I would like to know how to remove Linux Mint and then update it to either a later version or Peppermint if that's possible whilst leaving the factory installed OS in place and unaffected.? Can anyone offer me some help and instruction please? Many thanks. PS Forgot to say it dual boots and I would want to do that afterwards as well although that may have been obvious anyway.