The last time I tried to load a dual boot system with Fedora and Windows XP with Grub, I completely stuffed up my boot sector and could not access windows. I found out later that it was recoverable but I buggered it up so badly, I had to "format C" and start again. [..] Has anyone successfully loaded a dual bootup system with Ubuntu and Windows XP (NTFS)?
Fedora Core (2 I think) had a problem where the installer wrote partition data wrong. I didn't have the problem on my particular BIOS at the time, and I definitely didn't have it when I installed Hoary a month or so ago. There will be plenty of people on hand who can fix any problems that do happen, but while I heard of heaps of problems with the broken Fedora installer I've heard of none with Ubuntu. Craig