Comment 51 for bug 1

Hardcore confirmation of the bug in Canada. Except we got it almost as bad as the USA does. Here we're either non existant [Linux/BSD/misc O/S users] or we're dual-booting, or swapping back to XP or worst of all -- PIRATING WINDOWS VISTA! Even after having swapped to Linux or BSD. My youngest brother comes to mind as a victum of this bug. He's running WinXP build 2600 stock, no Win Updates or anything, and he refuses to even upgrade XP, or to go back to Ubuntu or anything. Way back when Whistler just got out of Release Candidates and made RTM, he was at least playing around with nothing but FreeBSD R-4.9, BeOS and QNX and such.. Every single store I've EVER been in that sells computers in today's market is pureley Windows XP Service Pack 2 be it home edition or proffessional. At least Wal-Mart almost broke the trend. I remember reading on Neowin.net and I THINK Slashdot.org too that Walton's Market Place was trying to sell computers with Linspire [Formaley known as Lindows OS] on them but it didn't really take off I think.. Never really heard more on it. And now... The dark side lures everyone and corrupts there judgement..

FIX FOUND:
From Free-DOS
A:\> fdisk /mbr
A:\> deltree
A:\> format C:
Format Complete - 100%.
A:\> reboot.bat

[Insert Open Source Operating System of Choice here.]

Hit [Enter] and follow on screen instructions to Install.