Dual boot (XP) best practice?

[Simon Ruiz]

Windows assumes it will be the only Operating System on the disk, and so if the partition you intend to install it to ISN'T the first partition on the first hard disk, this may be why it won't accept it as an valid install partition. I'm sure there is a way to coax it to work when installing it second, but there are quite a few extra little complications to deal with.
 
I'd suggest starting over and installing Windows first. This is the only way I've ever done it, myself.
 
Best of luck!
 
Sim?n

________________________________

From: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Michael Steigerwald
Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 12:15 PM
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Dual boot (XP) best practice?


I'm trying to set up my ThinkPad to boot into edubuntu or XP. I created an NTFS partition after I installed edubuntu, but got a new error when I tried to install Windows. 

I booted from the XP Pro CD, and it claims that it can find any hard drives to install to. I wouldn't be too disappointed if I had to reformat the whole disk, but I'm surprised that the install CD can't even see the NTFS partition. 

I know that edubuntu uses the GRUB loader, but I can get into the vanilla (ThinkPad) BIOS just fine. Did I corrupt something I need to use, e.g, Norton, for?

TIA for any ideas.