Quote Originally Posted by sarandosil View Post
So on a whim I installed FreeBSD and tried to dual boot it with my windows install. I ended up with a functioning BSD install and a dead windows.
It used to be the case that the partitioning softwares didn't play nice with each other. If you messed with the partition that windows lives in from the BSD manager, it would cause windows not to recognize the partition anymore. Still, the windows/dos partition manager doesn't give you many options, so you have to run the BSD manager to set up an inode file system for your BSD install.

In any case, Windows doesn't like to play nice with anything else. So it goes