[ubuntu-uk] dual boot

Keith Gregory kgregory30 at btopenworld.com
Tue Nov 27 15:35:43 GMT 2007


norman wrote:
> < big snip >
> 
> So, things are not as simple as I first thought. The thing is, the hard
> drive I am thinking of adding is from my old machine and has Windows XP
> already installed on it. Does this make much of a difference to the
> advice so far given?
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
The way I would do that is

1 Disconnect Ubuntu drive
2 Add Windows hard drive as primary drive, Boot and install drivers etc.
3 Reconnect Ubuntu drive configured as slave
4 Boot from Ubuntu install disk using repair option see if that will 
reconfigure grub for you


kfg




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