I don't want to run true dual boot. If I have 3 partitions. 2 For vista and 1 for ubuntu, will that work, so that I can just choose to boot to ubuntu when I feel like it?
no, I have three ntfs partitions. One has vista Os, one has all my stuff and I am going to delete one and use the unallocated space for ubuntu. Do i need to combine the first 2 partitions or not?
Another option. You can install Ubuntu inside of windows. It wont need partition. But you can choose how much space you want it to use. And, you can simply uninstall it just like a regular windows program.
Thats how I did it.