Sadface :'(

Last night i decided to install ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop to dual boot with vista.
Set up the partitions (didnt touch the vista one at all :|). Installed intrepid ibex and all went well.
I then go to boot up windows and it bluescreens(not a problem i thought) but the vista disc in to try and repair it and the whole bootloader has been deleted

So i went back to try and use ubuntu and the the vista repair utility had broken that too :smileysad:.

Gawd i hat vista, died when i never even touched the partition. Luckily my documents partition is still alive
But still the general feeling is Sadface
Thought i'd share this amazing story with you. Now tonight i have to spend hours installing again, drivers and all then customise it all yet again. ¬_¬

SADFACE

 

Wow, that really is bad. But it's strange, I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my girlfriend's laptop and resized the XP partition. XP still boots fine, as do the 6 entries of Linux with all the kernel versions and safe modes

 

I had similar issue after I installed openSUSE 11 on my laptop, it killed Vista partition even though I never touched it (3+ years of experience with Linux, I don't think I can mess it up so badly now).

 

Yeah i'd done this a few times before with no issues at all. Not sure what went wrong.

I'm going to install vista 64 bit this time so it's not all bad

 

i think there's a special way to do it follow this guide if you want to try again

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=259759

 

Yeah there is. I did it right as i've done it before. I guess something must of gone wrong though

 

Did you even try fixing the problem before nuking it?

 

Nope. I wanted a clean install of vista 64 anyway xD

 

I see. Well, good luck with 64-bit Vista anyway. I switched back to 32-bit because of some game issues and driver stability problems.

 

How did you set up the partitions without touching the vista partition?

This is the key.

IF a partition is created using VISTA's disk partitioning tool originally, other third party partitioning tools can result in true ugliness. Vista's partitioning tool creates a partition in a slightly different way then previous Windows tools and other third party tools.

If you partition with a Windows XP disk and then install Vista, you won't have this problem (Vista does not care if the partitions are created the other way, just be default it will partition them slightly differently).

 

Using gparted. My drive had already been split into 3 partitions. 1 containing a backup image.

 

That's odd...I've installed Ubuntu on onto a previously installed clean Vista install (off a OEM Vista CD) and had no problems booting up either OS. Though, I had two partitions before the Ubuntu install, and then just split up the non-OS to install Ubuntu.

Then, I used Grub to boot up as the boot loader for both OS.