Marc Espie said: > > Keep in mind that potential risk boiled down to wasted space on the hard > > drive, which could be easily reclaimed for OS the OP would prefer if > > dualboot was impossible. > > Oh really ? you've never managed to put an OS out of commission by trying > to multiboot ? you've never had a so-called install program just reclaim > all of your hard-drive ?
Not a single time. I'm not actually sure whether any version of Windows ever came with installer that would silently reclaim space - they lean toward failing to occupy free space once they reach something they don't understand. > esp. with Windows where it can be *very* tiresome and difficult to track > all the pieces you need to reinstall (especially with recent OEM stuff > which does not even provide you with any boot media!) When I set the dualboot environment up, I first install the OSs, then set up dualboot, and once it is working I set up the systems. I deny a claim that anyone doing it another way may possibly be right. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
