Hagar55
November 10th, 2009, 02:17 PM
I've had a dual boot with XP on my desktop for a long time (untill Karmic broke it....still can't get to work yet....food for another topic).
But I'm not that knowledgable in Vista.
I installed Jaunty in dual with vista and that went flawlessly....but since my troubles with Karmic I'm not that happy anymore.
I updated my Jaunty to Karmic and things haven't been going well at all.
It was booting two or three times before I got the log in screen, getting Kubuntu desktop out of the way helped some but not all is well yet.
Logon is very long (much much longer then with Jaunty) and it still struggles to get there sometimes, half the time it says there are errors in fstab that it can't resolve, boot up again and the errors are gone...
I have been thinking of wiping and starting again, but I don't know Vista that well, in XP I know how to fix my MBR with the XP disk if things go wrong.
Now I have a Vista install disk from DEll for my laptop but I'be never taken it out of the package.
Can you fix the MBR of vista in the same way as in XP or will it be a complete mess if the reinstall goes wrong ?
Also should I also wipe the home partition to clean out all the settings or can I leave that as it is ?
But I'm not that knowledgable in Vista.
I installed Jaunty in dual with vista and that went flawlessly....but since my troubles with Karmic I'm not that happy anymore.
I updated my Jaunty to Karmic and things haven't been going well at all.
It was booting two or three times before I got the log in screen, getting Kubuntu desktop out of the way helped some but not all is well yet.
Logon is very long (much much longer then with Jaunty) and it still struggles to get there sometimes, half the time it says there are errors in fstab that it can't resolve, boot up again and the errors are gone...
I have been thinking of wiping and starting again, but I don't know Vista that well, in XP I know how to fix my MBR with the XP disk if things go wrong.
Now I have a Vista install disk from DEll for my laptop but I'be never taken it out of the package.
Can you fix the MBR of vista in the same way as in XP or will it be a complete mess if the reinstall goes wrong ?
Also should I also wipe the home partition to clean out all the settings or can I leave that as it is ?