Ubuntu 9.10+Windows 7 dual boot, dynamic disks

Ubuntu 9.10+Windows 7 dual boot, dynamic disks Ok. Long story follows. I'm a Windows dude, but have started playing around a bit with Ubuntu. I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 installed on my notebook until a couple of days ago. Ubuntu's GRUB was the boot loader, and it took care of the whole dual boot thing in a nice way, allowing me to switch back and forth between the two OSes.
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"""dynamic"" disks are a Microsoft Windows solution and are not compatible with anything else, including some other versions of Windows (Home Edition, for example). They don't use any hardware assist either. I can't imagine any Linux supporting dynamic disks.

I have successfully used Windows XP and Windows 7 with Intel SATA RAID motherboards in a mirrored configuration. RAID mirrors have saved my patooty on several occasions, but I also faced a situation where I lost a disk and the other disk partition was damaged, so I recommend using RAID mirrors with a partition imaging backup, to protect against total loss.

That said, I haven't tried Intel SATA RAID controllers with ubu-9.10. I DID try to dual-boot a Ubuntu/WinXP configuration on the last major release of Ubuntu, but despite many tutorials purporting to show how to configure Intel RAID for Ubu, none of them worked.

If you don't have a RAID hardware assist, then don't do RAID. If you do have a RAID controller, you'll need to convert your Windows install to RAID first (not really very hard) and then see if you can find a tutorial for ubu-9.10 that actually works."