On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Neil Greenwood < neil.greenwood....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Apparently, it's not a problem with the installation process of either > Windows or Ubuntu. There are some recent Vista and Windows 7 programs > that implement their copy-protection by writing to an "unused" portion > of the boot sector. At least, it's unused by Windows, LILO and Grub 1. > However, it's a fairly vital part of the Grub 2 installation. > > Also, the Windows program keeps writing to that part of the disk every > time you boot into Windows. So your whole computer fails to reboot > every time you use Windows. Which stops it being a dual-boot machine. > > There was a post about the problem on Planet Ubuntu by the Grub 2 > maintainer. I'm afraid I've forgotten his name, since it was a few > months ago now. > > Hope this clears up the mystery. >
That's absolutely spot on (Bug #441941) heres the link to his blog post with some tips on how you can help identify what the 'nasties' are doing http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/debian/2010-08-28-windows-applications-making-grub2-unbootable.html
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