Thats the disclaimer i'm gonna throw at every guy who comes to me for help with his PC.
And mind you, I put this disclaimer after lots of bad experiences. The worst of all such experiences happened on 10th April, 2008 when my dear friend Prakash invited me to install Ubuntu(a flavour of Linux, thats how Prof. Sanjay Chaudhary puts it) on his PC.
I decided to get rid of Ubuntu first. So I installed a partition manager software on windows and deleted the Ubuntu and Linux Swap partition on the hard disk and created new partitions from the unallocated space for installing a fresh copy of Ubuntu.
I restarted the PC after doing the above step and the PC did not boot into windows or anything else. This damn thing happened as GRUB(an application that manages multiple operating systems on Linux PCs) had been deleted and i had no way of getting through to Windows.
I did not have the Ubuntu CD available so i popped in the kubuntu CD(another flavour of Ubuntu, eh Prof. Chaudhary ?). After fumbling around with the kubuntu settings I finally managed to get the installation started. In the meantime I convinced Prakash to leave his studies and watch a movie(The Covenant) with me.
By the time the kubuntu installation completes we have already watched 20min. of the movie. Now kubuntu and windows both are working fine. I start the PC in windows only to find that kubuntu decided to treat itself lavishly and installed itself on Prakash's 36GB partition rather than the 5GB partition it had been alloted. Prakash starts going haywire beacuse the late 36GB windows partition contained his personal photos, lecture notes and other stuff which was imp. to him and was collected after huge amounts of effort.
All I can manage is a grin on my face wishing that Prakash doesn't kick my ass(thats easy, all he needed to do was call a few friends. everyone's eveready to kick some ass). Prakash, being the ideal good boy he is, controls himself. Meanwhile another asshole, Paras enters the room and Prakash starts to utter his tale of anguish even though he is not asked to do so. So Prakash's tale of anguish brings an instant smile on Paras's face and he starts annoyingly repeating my name in different pitches sounding like a meditating mimicker.
A new problem turns up with kubuntu as no C programs can be run on it(aint that supposed to be good?). Paras tries out some wierd command on the terminal but that doesn't work, so we decide to install ubuntu instead of kubuntu (shitless ubuntu flavours, why cant they just compile it into one gr8 compilation, Microsoft you oughta be listening too..).
The first two partitions that had been created for kubuntu are intact. So i pop in the ubuntu CD and ask Paras to get us through with the installation. Now Ubuntu doesn't detect those partitions either so Paras tries out a software to create partitions for Ubuntu.
Paras gets the GNOME Partition Edition(GPARTED) CD from his room and pops it in. The application starts and Paras mercilessly hits enter several times only to find that GPARTED formatted the whole 160GB hard disk. So now Paras sits on the chair with a big grin on his face hoping Prakash wouldn't kill him & I switch into 'MEDITATING MIMIC' mode and start repeating Paras's name in many different tunes and pitches which even a classical singer couldn't produce. I have a big Sibaca smile while i'm emulating the meditating mimic. Prakash turns to a pale yellow as if he had just been rejected by the love of his life [:D].
That pretty well sums up the vicious circle of events that consumed my 4 hours. In the end, I successfully install Windows, I successfully complete 'The Covenant' & I successfully install Ubuntu(yeah, Paras is no good..). So Prakash goes to sleep at 1:30 AM with a heavy heart. Paras and I play a Counter-Strike clan and forget totally about past events.
