Why? Well I just got sick of Ubuntu not “remembering” settings I changed after a reboot, like the desktop effects. Also I installed XAMPP (LAMPP in Linux speak) and this also decided not to work. So enough was enough. I installed Vista.

Well thats the short version. I was going to put XP back on but I ran into “issues”. basically my pc has 2 partitions, and I wanted to keep the “second” one, my old D:\ as I had a lot of stuff on there, my iTunes folder being the most important. So I deleted the partition which contained the Ubuntu installation and created a new partition in its place for Windows. What the XP installation didnt tell me was that my old D:\ partition was now the Primary partition and what now contained my windows OS was the Logical or secondary partition.

I reinstalled XP twice and still was getting the same outcome. I decided to try Vista. Same thing happened again, but at least this time i noticed the Primary/Logical designations and realised that I would have to change the designations in order to boot my Windows.

Couldn’t change the designations. At least the Vista installation allowed my to copy my files to a number of USB memory sticks. SO then I deleted the old D:\, and created a new blank partition in its place. This left me with TWO primary partitions, so I installed Vista (again) on the smaller partition and everything went well.

Now I just have to turn off those annoying Vista warning popups