imyeman2000
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hi guys ! help is required from all you brainy people ! im trying to repair my talk talk youview box ! ive been reading up about it all morning and all day yesterday, ive found someone explaining that a new hard drive ( which is what is broken )needs to be formatted to Linux and be over 320 gig, ive got the hard drive 500 gig but formatting is my problem . ive learned using a iso image burned to disc of gparted live can do this so I downloaded and burned the image to disc, what im afraid of is running the disc from start up in case it changes my laptops windows 8...! ive watched a video on youtube showing how to run the disc and how to make partitions but does it go back to my original windows 8 when I eject the disc and reboot the laptop ? or is there and easier way to format an external hard drive to Linux... thank you for your time reading and I hope someone can help! cheers