"156 minutes of pain compared with 26 minutes of success. That's the difference between a Windows installation and a Linux installation. After two and a half hours fiddling with a Windows install on my Toshiba laptop, it became pretty obvious what is one major reason why Windows remains a viable operating system.
"Let me start by sharing a simple premise. I wanted a dual boot laptop, with Windows and Linux. Since Windows has an 'attitude problem' it has to be on the primary partition and master drive to work correctly. No problem. I decided to simply start with a reinstall of Windows..."