well,
If you can save off the windows partition to a backup, you can then wipe the drive, put Ubuntu on there and then use either vmware or virtual box to house the windows backup as a guest OS. I have done this many a time with various flavors of windows, OpenBSD and even OS X.

Anyway, too bad that Red7 appears to be gone. They were one of the few shops that could handle linux issues.

-eric

On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Joe Zagar wrote:

> On 9/25/2013 5:40 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> Now that red & is no more, does anyone know of a reliable place to get
>> some work on a laptop done. My step daughter has a toshiba satellite
>> that has W8 which she despises. She wants it removed and W7 loaded.
>> 
>> I'm slowly but surely steering her to linux. Once has W7 she'll
>> have microsoft's version of Virtual Box. I already have her playing with
>> Ubuntu running xfce on my desktop.
>> 
>> 
> SoftQue located at Stapley, just North of Main in Mesa or Power and Southern in Mesa
> 
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> Joe
> 
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