Ahhhrrgggg! I've been waiting for a couple of weeks now for my new work PC to arrive, and finally it arrived today! A brand spanking new Dell Dimension 9200.

Well of course, the first thing I had to do was get Ubuntu on. One of the reasons I got the new PC, was so I could dual-boot between Windows & Linux, since my PC also gets used by the non-techy folk here at work when I am away.

The first blow of the day was installing Ubuntu on the second HD (2x250gb SATA drives). Dell had set the PC up using a RAID config, so of course I didn't notice and everything refused to run. After faffing about in the BIOS, switching back to two SATA drives, I thought everything was hunky dorey. Wrong.

I had installed Vista first onto the first HD, and then Ubuntu on to the second. I went to boot back into Windows, only to be told "winload.exe" was missing. So I re-installed Windows - which promply wiped both HD's back to NTFS.

WTF??? So, I fired up Windows disk tools to find out something interesting - Vista installed itself not on 1 HD, but 2! The main files installed onto the primary drive, with the boot sector on the second one. So every time I tried to boot in, it's "winload.exe" was never there.

Fuck you Microsoft and your shitty OS.

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