Dual Boot Problem

[William Grant]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 18:45 -0800, James Diehl wrote:
> Good Luck on this one fellas!  I was running dual-boot XP Pro and
> Ubuntu, and they both constantly fought for control of the system
> board and CPU.  Ubuntu finally won!  My computer cannot run a Windows
> program at all!  The binaries from Ubuntu are different enough, plus
> the Debian format, that it took control of my system and locked
> Windows out completely.  My processor won't even recognize the Windows
> program!  I converted my PC to Ubuntu, and didn't look back.  But now,
> I have to build a new system with Windows on it!  I thought I had
> Windows up and running again, but when I tried to make a
> backup/restore with Ghost, when it rebooted, it said:  "Your operating
> system is missing!"  I'm glad I had my Ubuntu disc handy!

What on earth are you talking about!!?? One runs at a time. It is
impossible for multiple to run simultaneously, however it is trivial to
be able to select between them at bootup.

Ubuntu won't be able to run Windows programs (without a compatibility
layer like Wine, of course), because it isn't Windows!

William.

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