Dual-booting with Windows - general info

[Ali Linx (amjjawad)]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Erick Brunzell <lbsolost at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'll grant you that dual-booting with Windows up through XP was fairly
> easy, but even about 20% of puters that shipped with Vista used 4
> primary partitions by default.
>
> That increased to about 80% with Win 7, and while it's still possible
> it's definitely problematic.
>
> I've only seen a few Win 8 puters but they've all used 4 primary
> partitions by default ............. that makes installing Linux in a
> dual-boot almost impossible!
>
> I'll grant you that it is possible but quite often one of the primary
> partitions is a data partition that can be copied to an external drive
> and then copied back to an extended/logical partition, but it's quite a
> technical project, and if the user restores Windows using the installed
> restoration partition they'll lose all of the data in their Linux
> install!!!!!!!
>
> IMHO it's just not reasonable to give any advice on dual-booting with
> Windows 7 or Windows 8, but if I did give any advice the first step
> would be to say, "Use Windows own disk utility and see how many primary
> partitions exist, if there are 4 just forget about it and consider a VM"!
>
> Just my opinion,
>
> Lance


Hi Lance,

Thank you so much for your email.

This email bring back lots of nice and good memories. I remember when I
first started to contribute to Linux, that was on Ubuntu Forums with some
HOWTOs and Guides[1]. I was also giving great deal of support [2] regarding
Dual-Booting but at that time, it was mainly for Windows XP. And, when
Windows 7 was there, I was already involved with other things and my
attention on supporting Dual-Booting Issues became less. Now, I am no
longer interested in this, simply because, I am putting all my strength and
skills to support Linux and only Linux.

Thanks for bringing back these wonderful memories and I am sure you,
oldfred and other good people on Ubuntu Forums are, as always, helping with
these issues :)

[1] - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1649050

[2] - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1812877


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