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pavelexpertov
January 30th, 2011, 05:06 PM
I cleared my mate's hard drive with windows xp and then i installed ubuntu on a clear hard drive. Now, my mate wants to have two systems on the hardrive and he wants to put windows xp. How do i do it?!

dino99
January 30th, 2011, 07:19 PM
here is what you need about ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10161428&postcount=2

then, depending on free hdd space, you can either:

- install virtualbox 4 on ubuntu and have xp as a guest
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

- use a formatting tool (partedmagic for example) to resize your actual partition(s) to make room for xp

sidenote: xp is on end of life anyway and is still a virus/trojan/malware/... entry. Mostly all exe apps run on ubuntu using wine (winehq) https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa

myself have no more xp or else for years now and i still run exe apps without issues. Note that you have free software high quality equivalent ready to be installed into synaptic.

kansasnoob
January 30th, 2011, 07:47 PM
I cleared my mate's hard drive with windows xp and then i installed ubuntu on a clear hard drive. Now, my mate wants to have two systems on the hardrive and he wants to put windows xp. How do i do it?!

What version of Ubuntu? I mean 10.04, 10.10 :confused:

This still works other than the parts regarding grub if you're using a current version of Ubuntu:

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

So ignore page 2 and page 5!

To recover the grub bootloader you'll need to follow this guide:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB%202

I prefer method #3.

pavelexpertov
January 30th, 2011, 08:09 PM
Yeah thanx dino99, but i am doing it for my mate to be honest, but i got two systems anyways. Plus, thanx kansasnoob and the version of ubuntu is 10.10.
I can create partitions by using gparted in ubuntu, but when i will create a partitin and install windows xp "straight" on it, will ubuntu configure grub so i can use dual boot to choose between two systems when i start up a computer? That really concerns me...:---)

pavelexpertov
February 8th, 2011, 07:06 PM
hey guys, i have done one experiment and i could reinstall grub 2 to dual boot between windows xp and ubuntu 10.10...... but data that was on ubuntu 10.10 was disappeared after widnwos was installed. I used this guide (http://https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2) to reisntall grub 2.