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Re: OT: Vista relief

• Posted by Hayden McKay <hmck1 at dod?.com?au> Aug 29, 2007
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Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> DB James wrote:
> > 
> > Due to the computer gods getting frisky and trashing my old system, I now 
> > have a new computer.  With Vista (whoopee).  After fighting the new 
> > front-and-center User Access Control that is the pride of MS, I turned the
> > thing off and felt an instant relief as I can now do things without being
> > nagged and can do things that couldn't be done at all, as far as I could
> > see.
> > 
> > As for security concerns, time will tell if problems arise, but I can
> > testify
> > that when security becomes the main function of life, the day is a more than
> > a little grayer.
> > 
> > --Quark
> 
> I also recently got a new computer, because my previous computer
> got fried by a voltage surge.
> I also got a better surge suppressor (4140 joules).
> And the new computer came with Windows Vista.
> 
> I have 2 internal hard drives and 1 external USB hard drive.
> Vista on the 1st hard drive.
> Ubuntu Feisty on the 2nd hard drive.
> External hard drive for backups and spare room.
> External hard drive was formatted with Ubuntu.
> 
> A few observations.
> 
> Vista apparently doesn't like GNU/Linux. Vista won't recognize
> the external hard drive, which is okay, but Vista apparently does
> something that causes Ubuntu to not recognize the external hard drive.
> I had to remount the partitions in the external hard drive.
> 
> Now when I boot to Vista (which probably won't be very often),
> I switch off the external hard drive first. That way Vista doesn't mess
> with it. I switch off both the router and the external hard drive
> by switching off the surge suppressor that both are plugged into.
> Vista doesn't get a chance to get viruses either.
> 
> Ubuntu has no problem reading a NTFS format, with a little piece of
> software. Microsoft, on the other hand, seems to be loath to acknowledge
> the existence of GNU/Linux.
> 
> There is lots of room on the Vista hard drive (500 gigs) for Ubuntu
> to store stuff on.

If you want to run Linux, and keep all your hard disks readable/writable for
Vista (NTFS/FAT), then you should look at Microsoft Virtual PC. It's quite fast,
reliable and freeware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_PC