XP/Ubuntu dual-boot

[James Knott]

David Payne wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:18:53PM -0500, Dave Germiquet wrote:
>   
>>> Microsoft designs their operating system installation software to check
>>> for operating systems from competitors, and will refuse to proceed with
>>> the installtion process until you authorize it to erase the competitor's
>>> operating system.
>>>       
>> Your kidding right? The only problem i've ever had with installing
>> Microsoft second was  it erasing over my bootloader,
>> which I fixed by booting from a live cd and ran grub to reinitialize it....
>>
>> Is this new for vista?
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree, Windows has never done anything to another OS I had 
> on my system.  I don't really care if it is a new "feature" 
> in Vista, I don't see myself using it any time soon.  I 
> have to admit, it would be very silly if it did.
>
>   
Some systems, when rebuilt from the "rescue partition" will erase the
entire hard drive. I don't believe this applies to the retail version,
beyond the boot loader issue.



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