[ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu to dual-boot (partition sizes)

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Fri Aug 31 22:11:18 BST 2007


Mark,

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 19:49 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > (Obviously make backups of anything valuable first, as you would for any
> > major invasive exercise like installing an OS.)
> >   
> 
> I don't have any data on the laptop other than "backups / local cached 
> copies", if you see what I mean.
> 
> The question is "where did I put the Dell system recovery CD", of course 
> - re-installing XP-MCE on the beast would be the annoying part of the 
> exercise :-)

So you have Ubuntu on this machine and want to add Windows? A couple of
points spring to mind.

It's usually best to install Windows first and then Ubuntu so that the
grub boot loader gets set up correctly. You can do this manually if you
install the other way around, but I don't have a reference to hand about
this.

Most recovery CDs I've seen tend to wipe the whole disk and restore the
disk to the way it was when set up by the manufacturer. You could go
down this route and then install Ubuntu and, as Colin says, it will do
the resizing etc.

Regards,
Tony.
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