Thanks for the info. I had no desire to start a distro war. I do have another question though. 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. This only seems to happen with the NTFS file system windows and not using the older system which I used successfully on my other computer. I am keen to load Ubuntu but am terrified of stuffing up my windows partition. Has anyone successfully loaded a dual bootup system with Ubuntu and Windows XP (NTFS)? Cheers John
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
I did the same as you installing Ubuntu Warty 4.01 on NTFS. I understand Hoary 5.04 has ironed the problem out with NTFS, but I'd do some further checking before installing. On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:56 +1200, John Torrance wrote:
Thanks for the info. I had no desire to start a distro war. I do have another question though. 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. This only seems to happen with the NTFS file system windows and not using the older system which I used successfully on my other computer. I am keen to load Ubuntu but am terrified of stuffing up my windows partition. Has anyone successfully loaded a dual bootup system with Ubuntu and Windows XP (NTFS)?
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