In the April, 2010, issue of PC World, and back in December here at the old Hassle-Free PC Blog, I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step ...

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I have been running Vista in virtual box under Ubuntu 11.10. I now want to dual boot to get better performance for various games. I resized my primary ext4 partition to free up 80GB on my main disk. I ...

2. Install Vista on the new partition. Pop in the Vista CD and point it to your newly-created partition as the installation destination. Installation will restart your machine at various points. 3.