dual boot Xp and Ubuntu Studio

[Rafael Chacón]

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> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net>wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,  I have xp on my first drive and Ubuntu Studio on the second.
>> I have a partially installed Kodak easy share program that crashes xp
>> and I have been told that I will have to reinstall xp. I can't remove
>> the Kodak program. As I remember  Xp will  wipe out Ubuntu if I
>> reinstall it. Is this correct ??   Thanks Doug
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> 2010/12/29 Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com>
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> if they are on seperate drives, just unplug the buntu drive, install XP on
> the other one, plug the buntu drive back in, and select it as the primary
> boot in the bios, sudo update-grub, and BoB is your uncle... if not, you'll
> have to just install XP, that will wipe grub, and you'll need to recover
> grub with a live CD (not that big-a-deal)
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
> ...OR use some kind of 3rd party boot manager like
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/
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> you can also look online and in the forums, mailing lists, or IRC channels
> for regular ubuntu help as this process will be the same for ubuntu and
> ubuntustudio.
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> let us know how it goes
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> A suggestion:

When a had a similar problem, I prefered to:
1. Install Ubuntu (instead of Win).
2. Install VirtualBox.
3. Install Win XP on a virtual machine in the VirtualBox, on Ubuntu.

Pros: Anytime that Win crashes, I return to a previous point (image) in the
virtual machine in the VirtualBox.
Cons: A little bit slower (but a I equalize that by do not using an
antivirus and etc., because when I had a problem, I return to a previous
state (image) before the problem.

Best regards, Rafael.
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