My laptop (8 months old, middlerange toshiba) just cost me a pile of cash after vista massivly corrupted, wouldnt boot, rescue disk and all. I didnt want to lose my harddrive and didnt have the hardware to remove it before factory re-setting so had to have it done proffessionaly. Asked them to dualboot it, when I get it back not sure i'll ever boot with Vista again. Anyone noticed how microsoft OS's go in a good/bad cycle? Vista,XP,ME,98.