several months ago i installed vista rc1 as a dual boot with xp and soon after that my xp installation began acting weird. when it booted it would say a bunch of the files on the hard drive had to be checked and it turned out to be several thousand. when it booted it had no taskbar or start button ( never tried ctrl alt delete then restarting explorer though) some programs would open and others would not. i tried removing the drive from vista but it would not allow me to. needless to say i uninstalled it. i was wondering if anyone else had any problems like that and if the rtm version does the smame thing or not, i hope it doesnt because i will be tri booting with xp, vista, and ubuntu as soon as i get vista in Jan.
RC1 still has many bugs. Most of them are solved in the final RTM version. If you want to make a dual/triple boot, then first install the newest windows OS (vista), then the older windows OS (xp), and then install a linux distro (ubunto). This should be the correct way.
Why install the newest Windows OS first? I think it would be less hassle to install Vista second, as it will be able to handle the XP bootloader issues, and then install Linux.
yeah ill install xp then vista then ubuntu. ubuntus bootloader (grub) is better than the one i experienced with vista anyway.
i have anther question. I have an old computer running windows xp and windows 98 and i recently installed ubuntu alongside those. what surprised me was the fact that the grub bootloader did not list the two windows os's seperately it just had "windows" and when i press that the windows xp bootloader loaded and gave me a choice between 98 and xp. When i get vista i will boot xp vista and ububtu and i was wondering if it would do the same thing and maybe how to fix it even though its not really a problem.
