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Sabayon is also OK.

have a look at this site

http://distrowatch.com/

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does ur laptop boot the live CD.

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see gparted tutorial here

http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted

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see here also

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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see this link on installing XP after Linux (ubuntu)

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_first.htm

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on windows machine u can also use calling id.

have a look

http://www.callingid.com/Default.aspx

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+1

i feel rather good with mcafee site advisor on the browser.

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trying out wot and finding it pretty good:KS

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what is ur bootmanager. is it GRUB. if so did u install GRUB after VISTA install, as vista would have erased GRUB from MBR and put its own bootloader in place of GRUB.

go thru these these threads...

thanks caljohnsmith for the link to wot

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456

http://www.mywot.com/

have installed it in addition to site advisor.

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confirm 32 bit / 64 bit

confirm md5sum

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

if in doubt about burning iso image with nero try burning disk with software found on following links
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try pressing delete key after rebooting ur computer.

that should give u BIOS menu.

change booting priority to CD ROM then hard drive

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see here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=724817

u would need to burn the ubuntu as ISO image.

see here

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BurningIsoHowto

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Thanks for the info:)

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for partitioning have a look at gparted which is part of Ubuntu live CD or available at

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

(burn it as iso image to make bootable CD.

then pop in CD...

ur / partition will have to be formatted to ext3 and SWAP as SWAP.

i see u have NTFS and FAT 32 partition. u can get rid of it if not using it in future. or are u planning on dual booting with...

from ubuntu live CD terminal post output of

sudo fdisk -lu

and cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

how many hard disk are there, RAM size. when did the problem occur - after installation of which OS,...

give supergrub disk a try

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

see tutorial

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Howto_Fix_Grub

on windows, i don't dare to venture online without site advisor enabled.:)

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try to format it again as ext3 and give it all the time in the world for formatting:)

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thanks for the info.



by no script extension do u mean this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

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u will need to manually make entries for open suse in the ubuntu's menu.lst

first backup menu.lst

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i was wondering how many use mcafee siteadvisor when browsing the net with firefox or IE. i use it and find it pretty useful to get info on the website i want to visit especially when need to check...