--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, J <dreadpiratejeff@...> wrote:
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> What Loyal said :-)
>
> TO be more specific, the programs in question seem to be the recovery
> programs used by various manufacturers to do "System Recovery" or
> whatever they want to call it. These programs use that bit of your
> hard disk that is wasted on storing a backup copy of Windows and all
> the crap the manufacturer pre-loads. This way they don't have to
> actually give you a recovery disk.
>
> What happens is that grub2's first stage is larger than the older
> grub, and when you boot windows, the recovery software sees that grub2
> has overwritten some of the recovery software data that is also stored
> in the MBR, and does it's own automatic recovery to save you from the
> evil infection in your MBR.
>
> This was confirmed repeatedly on Dell systems, though I'm not sure if
> Toshiba systems also displayed this behaviour. But to be honest, I
> delete that recovery partition anyway and remove the software from
> inside Windows after being bit by this. Unfortunately, this isn't a
> bug in Ubuntu, or Linux in general, it's a problem with the recovery
> software and thus will most likely never get fixed.
>
> BUT, deleting the software at least (e.g. using the "Add or Remove
> Software" tool in the Windows control panel) will keep it from
> happening again (though you will have to rebuild grub at least once in
> the process).
>
> But other than that, Win7 has no issues living with another OS.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
Cool, thanks for the info. There are certainly plenty of reasons to bash M$ so it's good to be able to avoid one erroneous idea, and that will definitely be some good info to keep in mind if/when I purchase a new machine. Of course, who am I kidding...we all know how these thoughts pan out, right? lol
Mark
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