Mostly it's dual booting that I wanted to get away from. I've been doing it for about 4 years now. It always ran good for a while but then something would happen and I would end up reinstalling one or both O/s's. Or I would have to edit the Grub Boot Menu in Ubuntu to get it to allow XP.
The last straw was with my wife's laptop. She hated Vista so I set it up to dual boot with XP. Then a while later I upgraded her Vista to W7 for me to try out. I liked it a lot so I put it on my desktop. Then a few weeks later I reverted W7 back to a factory installation of Vista using the Recovery Drive. That broke the XP Boot Loader again. I got it to work again. Then just 2 weeks ago something happened to it and nothing would boot at all. I had to repair Vista and the Recovery drive with the Vista disk and reinstall XP from scratch. It won't boot Vista now and I don't plan to fix it. I'm just sick of this dual boot crap. I think I'm going to install XP on the System Drive and forget about Vista.
Eventually I will come up with the money to build myself a new multicore CPU system. Then I will either reinstall XP x64 or give Ubuntu another try on this one. I gotta say I don't think Ubuntu is all it's cracked up to be either.
Whatever I do you can bet it won't be dual boot.
I hope I'm not offending anyone with this rant against dual booting. I just had to get it off my chest and a forum is the only place where people know what I'm talking about.
i'm having such a good experience with W7 i don't know if i'll ever use my XP part. again it's just that my OCD won't let me format it without some public opinion.So my question is this: who has or intends to wipe out their former installs be they vista, XP, i'm even hearing of some ubuntu converts.I'm sure most people will obtain seven as soon as it hits the shelves i'm just curious who of us has already made the full commitment and tossed the dual boot.