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BlocknBleed
May 13th, 2009, 08:19 AM
Just got a new system with Vista preinstalled. I wanted a separate /boot partition but cannot put it at the start of the disk because vista is there. So I had a partition scheme with

vista, /boot, /, /home, swap.

There is actually 2 vista partitions for some reason. The first is only 10Gb and I don't know what it's for.
The installation went fine but when I rebooted it just loaded straight into vista without even looking at grub.

My ultimate goal is to have Vista dual booted with ubuntu and at least one other OS. I have about 150Gb of free space to play with.

Any suggestions?

Mark Phelps
May 14th, 2009, 02:17 AM
My guess is that the other 10GB partition is a "recovery" partition or image that can be used to restore your PC to its original state.

If you want to use the Vista Bootloader to boot both Ubuntu and Vista, have a look at EasyBCD. You can get that from the NeoSmart forums and they have How-to guides on installing it and using it.