Seopher: Are You Scared of Dual Booting Linux? Oct 12, 2006, 22 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6846 reads) (Other stories by Stephen York)
"An excellent question it seems even when my personal experiences are put aside--a friend of mine over in Norway attempted to dual boot everyone's favourite distro (Ubuntu) on his laptop with fairly disastrous results. Specifically, a crashing while managing the partitions created an expensive paperweight. While I doubt this situation isn't reversible (as that isn't the point of this article), I wonder how many people are actually scared of dual booting Linux.
"While initial searches of Google don't convey this to be a serious problem or concern I am aware that myself and those around me have experienced problems doing this (theoretically) simple action, mostly with semi-devastating consequences..."
