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First time partitioning a HDD to dual boot. Need advice.
how would i install Ubuntu onto a primary partition on my HDD and keep Windows 7 OS too
Started by zettabyte on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at tech-forums):
"Sorry, Alvin, but Windows version to dual....
Very simple guide.
Kudos to Mak.
Need advice.
GParted Usage Tutorial
The GParted a HDD to dual boot.
Need advice.
Re: First time partitioning a HDD to dual boot.
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While several questions have already been answered about removing an OS from a dual-booting machine, most refer to Windows 7 vs. Linux/Vista/XP. I have W2K installed on my older HDD (Drive C). Later on I bought a new HDD and installed XP's under W2K environment...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Even if you're manage to to repair the boot files complicated, I may just keep....
The boot loader was on C and XP was installed on D, now you want to remove the old C drive and expect Windows XP to boot from what is now the C drive.
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I currently have a windows XP machine and two internal hard drives. I want to dual boot with Windows 7 on the second drive. I'll have the license for it in August. This will not be the release candidate.
I haven't dual booted before. What issues should...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
As for dual and what you NEED ....
Makes keeping track of which HDD easier.
Use EasyBCD to set up the dual boot afterwards appears no matter which letter its been assigned.
That way you don't have to fear formatting it.
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I need Help to install on my PC desktop a Dual Boot two separate HDD's Windows 7 32Bit on IDE drive & Snow Leopard OSX on SATA drive
My Pc
ASUS P5PL2-E
Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz
2MB DDR2
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
Please, let me know step by step specially ...
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WIN7-XP DUAL BOOT FILES - to save to backup
I have win7 and XP as dual boot on same HDD. WinXP installed first. Works fine.
I use a backup/restore program to make images of each O/S - seperately and regularly.
However, it's not made for a dual boot machine...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at techguy):
Hi Dave, so I haven....
Are installed as dual boot on the same HDD.
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I'm trying a dual-boot installation of Ubuntu 9.04 parallel to an exisiting Windows XP. On first Ubuntu boot I get a Grub error 18. As I already found out the reason therefore is a unfortunate combination of problems:
The Ubuntu partitions are at the ...
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There I set /boot as the mountpoint for the small partition and put the rest of the Ubuntu....
Then ran the Ubuntu Desktop installation and chose manual partioning .
A new small first primary Ext2 partition for /boot with GParted did the trick.
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I have a 2 hdd dual boot configuration with UE 3.0 as primary on drive 1 and WinXP on drive 2 as secondary. Works great - however, I share this comp with my wife who uses the XP. No problems so far. My question is this: XP shows up as drive C: and shows...
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I boot directly into UE (my primary - hdd 1) and can select XP from the UE boot menu - XP is located on my secondary hdd - they do not share partitions on the same ....
Actually, each OS is on it's own separate hdd.
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Ok, so i'm getting a copy of windows vista soon and was wondering what i need to do to run vista on one HDD and linux on a second HDD (obviously not at the same time). they are running through a pata ide cable. will they both need to be set to master?...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at overclockers):
I aready have linux installed on the 120GB HDD.
Install Vista first though.
Since you are installing the two, that should be helpful .
Here is a site with pretty good instructions on dual booting.
As master.
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HDD Image Mac OS X 10.6.8 + 7 Dual Boot for MSI Wind U100
HDD image of Mac OS X 10.6.8 + 7sp1 Dual Boot for the MSI Wind U100 updated 24. 05. 2012
Installation:
A. Unpack from the iso into a folder on an external hard or flash drive
Two. Establish an ...
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Would like to move my Win 8 DP install to another HDD as a dual boot Presently, I have Win 8 CP on a 40GB WD HDD. What I'd like to do is dump Vista, which is installed on one of my better hard drives, slide Windows 7 over beside XP Pro x64, rebuild the...
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Re: Would....
Tough to know what to respond as the question is put .
Re: Would like to move my Win 8 DP install to another HDD as a dual boot EasyBCD to fix MBR to another HDD as a dual boot Yep, I found that, too.
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