Dual Boot Problem

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On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:16 +1100, William Grant wrote:
> 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.
> 


If you run Vmware you can run windows  on TOP of Linux

Windows would be an application in Linux


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