[clug-talk] Ubuntu 9.04 / Win 7 dual boot experience

[Gustin Johnson]

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Greg King wrote:
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> Upon rebooting from the Win7 DVD to repair the Windows install, the
> repair tool could not see the NTFS partition or the Windows image. It
> accepted a repair command anyway, did something, and said to reboot.
> Upon reboot the std grub menu appeared and this time the Windows
> selection worked (thankfully).  There is something different in Win7 - I

Yes there is something different with Win7, starting with the 200 MB
partition at the beginning of the disk.  I have no idea why, but I seem
to be one of the few people who does not think Win7 is the greatest
thing since sliced bread.  Simply Vista SP2, big deal.  Oh and the
SMB/CIFS stack is broken again, thanks MS.

> think grub may have corrupted the Windows boot image. So I’m back to
> normal after wasting a few hours. Grub loads either OS as before. 
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? Ubuntu 9.04 uses Grub as opposed to grub2.

Yes I have seen this.

> Does grub2 work better wirh Win7?
> 
Don't know.  I have not had the opportunity to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my
Win7 box yet.  Perhaps this week or next.
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