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| When I installed the Windows 7 beta on Disk 1, I hoped that it would ignore
| Disk 0 completely. No such luck: it found the Vista boot block, ignored the
| grub menu, and created a new Windows boot menu for itself and Vista on Disk
| 0. (I probably should have unplugged the Samsung disk for the installation.
| Now I think of it.) The Ubuntu ext3 and swap partitions are still there, but
| I can't boot to Ubuntu.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2009/02/windows_7_is_ni.html
Related:
Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft
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| If you’re dualbooting Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate alongside a Linux
| distro, and have installed the Linux bootloader into the MBR, then you’re
| guaranteed to run into problems when installing Vista Service Pack 1,
| Microsoft has admitted.
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http://apcmag.com/vista_sp1_wont_install_on_dualboot_systems_microsoft.htm
Geek in Paradise - Vista Upgrade
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| As the HP Advisor disc was in the process of finishing, the machine
| froze solid. After giving it 5 minutes of no disk activity, I reset
| the machine to be greeted by a lovely blinking cursor. I put the
| Vista disc in and booted into a repair installation, where I ran the
| Repair tool. My hunch was proved correct when it returned a corrupted
| MBR, which it had fixed. Thinking all was well, I rebooted to be
| greeted with a black screen (no blinking cursor). Well, there's
| something more going on so I rebooted into the repair tool and let
| it do it's thing. This time, it found a Corrupted Partition table
| which it then said it repaired. Awesome! Next reboot was greeted by
| the same black screen, so I figured the other partition was corrupt
| as well and let the repair tool run again and fix the partition
| table again. Reboot, same thing...
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http://geekinparadise.com/2007/04/05/vista-upgrade/
Vista scoots to new boot, but it's still kinda rooted
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| While Microsoft would like the world to believe that anyone running Windows
| has no need of any other operating system, that attitude doesn?t cut much
| mustard with many of its users.
|
| Why settle for one OS when your PC is easily capable of running two or
| more?
|
| [...]
|
| One of the more questionable tactics that Microsoft has implemented in
| Vista is to automatically overwrite any existing MBR during the
| installation process without asking if you mind or giving you an option
| to back up.
|
| Microsoft says that the Windows installation system can't intelligently
| interrogate an existing non-MS MBR, although such features are quite
| common in the install routine for other OSes.
|
| It also argues that an "official" Vista MBR is required for security
| features -- such as measured boot, which works with Trusted Platform
| Module (TPM)-enabled chips to check that the OS hasn't been hacked or
| altered each time it boots -- to work correctly.
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http://www.apcstart.com/site/akidman/2006/09/1656/vista-scoots-to-new-boot-but-its-still-kinda-rooted
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| >From bradsi Fri Sep 91 10:01:22 PDT
| To bradc; jimail; johnlu; mikemur; paulma; russs; steveb; tonya
| Cc: mackm
| Subject: dri/novell/ibm
|
| .. drdos has problems running windows today.
| And I assume will have more problems in the future.
|
| ..
|
| To: bradsi
| Subject: RE: dri/novell/ibm
| Date Fri Sep 27 18:26:52 PDT 1991
|
| You should make sure it has problems in the future :)
|
| jim
|
| ..
|
| From bradc Fri Sep 27 18:35:22 1991
| To: bradsi
| Cc: bradc; richab; richf; loaya
| Subject: FW: FYI - Windows message
| Date Fri Sep 27 18:36:31 PDT 1991
|
| ..
|
| I asked to have this forwarded to me.
|
| Two cents from richf and I;
|
| 1) The check for dr dos better be perfect, otherwize you could be in a heep
| of
| trouble ..
|
| ..
|
| 4) The PC-DOS statement is problematic if ibm calls dr dos pc dos 6 so we
| think
| that we have to not state ms-dos or pc-dos directly
|
| ..
|
| we can get the message out that they don't work with windows without seeming
| so
| manipulative. We need to say the right thing so that people get the right
| message - we are helping users by giving them info that windows is only tsted
| on ms-dos.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00978.pdf
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