[pchelpers] Re: Upgrading Vista

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi, folks!
>
> On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I installed Vista something like 18
> or so times.
>
> I had one more problem; I needed to leave the DVD in the drive in
> order to boot into Windows.  I had to get and use EasyBCD 1.6 to set
> up the boot files correctly in order to start Windows without the disc
> in the drive.  This may have been a consequence of doing a full
> install using an upgrade version.
>
>   
This all sounds like plenty of reason to avoid Vista. Let's face it- 
installing Ubuntu Linux is way easier.

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