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Relief
December 29th, 2008, 07:38 AM
So I have just installed ubuntu and was wanting to install windows xp on a dual boot, and I am unsure what to do. Is there a tool to partician off my HD, etc? I am new to using this system and am unsure on how to proceed. Any help is appreciated.

- Relief

gettinoriginal
December 29th, 2008, 07:51 AM
Great tutorial here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

plarq
December 29th, 2008, 07:57 AM
So I have just installed ubuntu and was wanting to install windows xp on a dual boot, and I am unsure what to do. Is there a tool to partician off my HD, etc? I am new to using this system and am unsure on how to proceed. Any help is appreciated.

- Relief

Use gparted to repartition your disk without losing data.
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Back up your MBR using dd.
Install Windows
Use Live CD or Rescue CD or USB to boot into Linux
use dd to recover MBR
setup GRUB
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Alternatively, copy a working Windows on a new NTFS partition (Assume you have license )
setup GRUB.

Relief
December 29th, 2008, 07:14 PM
I do have a working xp license so that is not an issue (no sense in stealing windows best os so far).

Though, I was wondering, before I go through all this, I did install the 32 bit version of ubuntu, but I have a 64 bit capable laptop, am I missing much by using the 32 bit architecture? If so I supose I could just format and install windows then ubuntu over again.

Thanks,

- Relief