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   From: SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid>   
   Subject: Re: Ubuntu Grub and Vista   
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   Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:39:38 GMT   
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   * Chris wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > In article <45d227ea$0$3846$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>, Juerg Schwarz    
   >  writes   
   >>HOpe to be not off toppic here. I have a DELL Dimension E520 with Vista    
   >>Business. (not for me of cource). I installed Ubuntu after i resized    
   >>/dev/sda3 to someting like 100MB free space. Ok Ubuntu runs but no    
   >>Ethernet Card was found. So i installed another one no problem.   
   >>BUT NOW! No Vista anymore. AND! I could not boot from original Vista    
   >>DVD. I checked to boot XP from Original XP CD. Nothing! I checked out    
   >>to boot with Bart PE (XP) Nothing! I got bluescreen or black screnn    
   >>with nothing on it. After severla hours of googeling i deleted all    
   >>partitions and then it worked to start from the Vista DVD. I coul'd not    
   >>believe it and i have done the same thing again. And again i had the    
   >>same shitt.   
   >>So - whenever Vista finds a Linux on my Disk i can't install Vista anymore.   
   >>Juerg   
      
   > I'm just wondering if it could be anything to do with DELL.   
   > Have you still got that tiny FAT partition DELL always puts at the start    
   > of the drive?   
      
   As a point of reference, I've had nothing but Dell Laptops and that   
   partition has never caused an issue for me.   
   --    
   David   
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