Dual boot by adding WinXP to Hardy?

[riromero]

I've had Ubuntu Hardy Heron installed and configured to my liking for several months now. For a variety of reasons, I need to boot to Windows XP occasionally. I tried VirtualBox, but the performance is unacceptable on my current hardware.

Question is, how painful will it be to install Windows on a spare partition given that Ubuntu is already installed? I see plenty of guides and HOW-TOs for dual-boot configurations but they all want Windows installed first. Are there any tricks to doing it the other way around? I'd hate to have to reinstall and reconfigure Ubuntu.

[myusername]

you would have to reinstall grub. there is a how to for that in the tutorial section in the forums

[riromero]

Thanks to your reply I added "reinstall grub" to my google search and found just what I was looking for...

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_instal led_first.htm

I am much obliged.