Spy der Mann's Journal: Goodbye, Drive C:! Good morning, linux partitions!

Finally I understood why I couldn't dualboot Windows using grub. It seems that I screwed up my windows partition while repartitioning :-/ I really don't know if it was Ubuntu's fault, or PCLinuxOS's fault, or my own fault. I just know that i couldn't boot.

The strange thing is that the files were still there. So it must have been something to do with the boot sector. Or maybe I had a windows rootkit lurking around. Who knows.

So I reinstalled Windows in "repair mode", and rebooted.

Read error. Press ctrl-alt-del to reboot. :(

I could have reinstalled windows from scratch, or run fixmbr and fixboot from the recovery console in the Windows CD, but I didn't want to waste two more hours installing an operating system I completely hated. And then call the Product Activation and all that?

That does it, Microsoft! NO MORE SOUP FOR YOU!

I backed up my important data and entirely wiped my windows partitions. I repartitioned as I wanted, and reinstalled PCLinuxOS from scratch with separate partitions for /usr, /var, and /home.

After installing, grub loaded without the slightest complaint.

I ran synaptic and marked all upgrades. It took the OS 2 hours to download and install while I took a nap.

Then I installed some games, azureus for BT, and other stuff.

Finally. I'm free from Windows now! No more headaches! :D