Just few months back i started working on Linux and i desided to use only Linux some some time...that was an great idea i installed UBUNTU 8 which is running fine.
two weeks back i need to run an windows specific application so instead of using virtual machine or some other alternative i decided to install windows on my system (Dual booting).
Long time back i installed Linux on windows(dual boot) there was not problem with that installation, so i thought that that there will be no problem if i install Windows over Linux .
Finally i decided to install win XP pro on by Ubuntu machine ,booted with XP cd and it started normally every thing is going great finally as part of installation my system restarted and I WAS SHOWN BLANK SCREEN ... i waited for few minutes then tried hitting return key ..... TRIED MENY WAYS ,NOTHING WORKED OUT.
Finally i found that windows installation Removed "boot flag" from linux installed drive and damaged the GRUB
finally i tried to resolve this issue in meny ways,i booted my system with ubuntu live cd, then i tried to set boot flag to linux drive using "cfdisk" utility but to my horror i erazed entire disk now my 4 partitioned disk shown as no-partition disk with un-allocated space.
finally i attached my HDD to other system fortunatly ......Luckily...... Two NTFS partitions were still alive which had my important data. I quickly backed it up and repationed and formatted my disk.
then i installed win XP first then UBUNTU...
GUYS(Also gals) be carefull if you are installing windows over Linux...
Have great linux experience...good bye
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Okay, Just give me the simple steps. I am getting a computer with Ubuntu and would like to install windows xp also........or should I just erase ubuntu and use windows xp?
hi
my suggestion is
1) format your Hard disk
2) make make 4 partition's
- 1st partition: 12-15 GB, NTFS file system For Win XP
- 2nd partition : Around 8- 10 GB, EXT3 file system for UBUNTU installation
- 3 rd around 2 GB , SWAP file system (assuming that your RAM is 1 GB, Normally it will be double the size of RAM)
- 4 th Partition, NTFS file system , remaining space for storage of normal files ,S/w ,documents etc (If NTFS it can be accesible from both Windows and linux environment)
3) now install Win Xp on 1 st partition
4) Ubuntu on 2 nd partition
5) swap partition (3 rd partition)will be automatically used by linux
Enjoy...
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