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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 00:27:00 No.17258907 View View Reply Original Report

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I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 atm and just dug out my old Half Life CD.
Problem is it won't install in my XP virtual machine or using WINE.
So can I dual boot XP (or any Windows OS) alongside Ubuntu without doing a hard drive format? Where can I get a bootloader or whatever I need?
Thanks

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!fucKtaRdpc Mon 02 May 2011 00:29:00 No.17258951 Report

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1. (assuming you have no free disk space) Resize a partition and make sure you have at most 3 primary partitions (Windows doesn't like to install to a logical partition). Gparted is a good GUI tool for this.
2. Install Windows into that free space.
3. Get your Ubuntu live CD/USB and boot it
4. Re-install GRUB to MBR (either using grub's command line or with grub-install)

That's it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 00:29:00 No.17258955 Report

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Anyone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 00:32:00 No.17258990 Report

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http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=8

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Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 00:34:00 No.17259018 Report

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If you don't have an old hard drive about that you can load XP onto and boot to from BIOS then gtfo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 00:37:00 No.17259061 Report

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>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

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