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   Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:34:01 +0100   
   From: vincent carceles    
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   Subject: Re: Ubuntu Grub and Vista   
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   SINNER wrote   
   > * 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.   
   Hi,   
   I heard about a marking technique on hard disk (some manufacturers do    
   that, HP & Dell) to prevent change of hard disk from one laptop to an other.   
   May be Vista is trying to read this information (OS linked to your    
   laptop) and cannot read it anymore after installing Linux.   
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