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Vista and distro

post #1 of 4
12/29/07 at 10:48am
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Hello everyone,

I've had recently problems with loading Vista when installed some of distros. I used 2 comps, on which both I managed to screw Vista and loose all data.
What I've heard is that there is certain file Vista has in which it is written the size of hard disk. And when distro installed of course it is smaller, but that is the problem and Vista will simply not work if the size of HD is not the same as the one written.

Is it true? Anyone else with problems Vista and Linux?

Cheers!
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post #2 of 4
12/29/07 at 6:59pm
im not sure i entirely understand your post...
from what im reading, you are installing vista after installing linux? if thats the case, you might as well not even try, its a pain to get working... just wipe out the drives, make a partition for vista, install it, then pop in your fav. linux distro and GRUB will take care of the rest in the other partition.
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post #3 of 4
12/30/07 at 7:09pm
what bigee said. install vista first. then linux. works fine. neither OS kills the other one.
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post #4 of 4
12/31/07 at 1:30am
likely you're just screwing up the bootloader for Vista, which is easily fixed with a few commands from the WinRE if it gets damaged. i dual boot Vista and Gentoo on both my notebook and my desktop, and in my notebooks case Vista was installed after Linux (becuase I had set it up as XP and linux, then upgraded to Vista). a simple readjustment of the MBR and it was back to Grub and they are playing fine

one thing you do want to keep note of, however, is that often OS's have issues booting if their boot record is after so and so place on the disc (like 1024 sectors in). I usually partition my drives so that the grub partition is first, then the linux swap, then the windows partition, then the rest of the linux partitions, so that both linux and windows don't have issues booting by being too far in on the drive
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