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Tom-<br>
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I'd love to tell you that there's "no chance" of losing XP, but
unfortunately setting up a dual-boot of any two operating systems will
require a repartitioning of your hard drive, and *ANY* time you mess
around with an existing disk partition, there's some chance of things
going wonky.<br>
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Now, if you're putting Ubuntu on an entirely different (physical) hard
drive from Windows, you greatly mitigate that. Likewise, if you're
simply using an unused partition on your existing hard disk (maybe you
split it in half when you bought it, and never used the other half)
your chances of partition corruption are similarly mitigated.<br>
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Back up Windows XP before you mess with it. If possible, start from
scratch (repartition the whole drive, then install XP and Ubuntu in
that order) and restore your stuff to the new copy of Windows.<br>
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If you can't (or don't want to) do that, back up XP and then defrag it
a couple of times before you install Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
The repartitioning process is good, and is unlikely to make you lose
Windows (unless you choose something wrong during the install process),
but the chances of losing your XP install are most definitely not
Zero. Again, IMHO the most likely reason to lose XP is to accidentally
format the wrong thing during the install process.<br>
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It's still a great idea, though. Go for it! Just back your stuff up
first.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Dave Cooley
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dcooley@kiva.net">dcooley@kiva.net</a></pre>
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Nick Westerhausen wrote:
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cite="mid:825a7ce20804281718l44c5fe11h860960fd712d92bb@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Dual booting is a great idea. I did it. But, I like Ubuntu
so much I basically stopped using XP. If you need some help doing it,
let me know. With a dual boot, the option comes up everytime you start
your computer to which kernel you want to run. It automatically chooses
the most recently installed one, however. (ten second timer that aborts
on user imput)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Thomas <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sstarchaser08@gmail.com">sstarchaser08@gmail.com</a>>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I don't really know if this is the
correct place to e-mail any questions.... I'm thinking of installing
your software and dual booting with my Windows XP.... Convince me that
there won't be any chance of me losing my XP Operating System...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">thanks,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">TOM</font></div>
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