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To: roto who wrote (74287)	2/25/2011 10:23:34 PM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110626

Running Vista on the Notebook and I installed Ubuntu and attempted to make it a dual boot. Talk about a massive royal PITA. Part of the issue was the drive was 250GB and my version of Partition Magic was 32bit and old - so didn't gamble on that working. In order to make the space I had to defrag that I don't know how many times. Then to make the "Second" partition for *NIX, I use Ubuntu or some other "USB KEY" BOOT. That worked in one sense but then Vista had problems and I need to put in the Windows boot to rectify. After that I installed Ubuntu. Worked fine for a while - rarely used it though. Then out of no where, the boot was missing - there is a GRUB to pick your partition (popular partition app out there can't recall the name). Just stopped showing and went straight to Vista. I tried to put it back and it wouldn't work. I recall not getting Ubuntu up and then reinstalling it. Spent countless hours on this entire process and gave up. In reality I should have a dedicated linux box and program on that I suppose. But didn't and felt the notebook might work out nice. Anyways, I digress - you mentioned dual boot and I thought I would give you my hard luck story. B