Two operating systems

[alex]

roger bouche wrote:
> I used 2 hard drives hddo and hdd1 being ubuntu .  It worked fine for
> about 2 weeks. I do not know what happened but both drives had Ubuntu
> after that and I lost my XP .
> Seems like they don't like one-another   LOL  . But thats what happened to me .
>                                                      Roger B
>
> On 8/18/07, alex <aradsky at ne.rr.com> wrote:
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>> alex wrote:
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>>> William Temple wrote:
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>>>> I need to have windows XP on my system but would also like to use UBUNTU.
>>>>
>>>> I made a partition for Ubuntu of 29 gig,
>>>>
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>>> You should  supply more information......so far it seems that all you
>>> have done is make a partition for Ubuntu but did you actually install it?
>>>
>>> To do things properly, you should always have MS Windows installed and
>>> working before trying to install any Linux system.  If you don't do
>>> this, booting either Windows or any Linux becomes a complicated operation.
>>> The boot system is done from a Linux system so it has to be installed
>>> after Windows which doesn't have the dual booting that Linux has.
>>>
>>> 1.  Remove ubuntu if you have already installed it.
>>> 2.  Install Windows in the usual way.  It should be in partition C: of
>>> your hard drive.3.
>>> 3.  Install your Linux system (ubuntu, in this case)
>>>
>>> The installation of linux after windows creates a dual boot system in
>>> Linux so you'll be able to boot either one.  This doesn't happen if
>>> linux is installed first.
>>>
>>> alex
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>> More explanation:
>>
>> When a Linux systerm is being installed, it looks around to see what
>> other operating systems are already installed and adds them to the boot
>> menu that will be created in Linux
>> Windows doesn't do this while it is being installed. That's why you have
>> to install Windows first. Windows is unaware that there's another
>> operating system if Linux is already installed.
>>
>> Let's say you're installing 3 different Linux systems after you've
>> installed Windows.
>>
>> you already have Windows installed, there is no special boot menu.
>> Then:
>> when you install Linux #1, Linux #1's boot menu will include
>> Windows and Linux #1
>> When you install Linux #2, Linux #2's boot menu will include
>> Windows, Linux #1, and Linux #2
>> When you install Linux #3, Linux #3's boot menu will include
>> Windows, Linux #1, Linux #2 and Linux #3.
>>
>> The default menu is that of the last Linux that was installed.
>>
>> It is possible to copy a boot menu from one Linux system to another, if
>> you prefer the style of one the Linux's system boot
>>
>> I have 7 different Linux system (three UBUNTUs) installed but use #1's
>> Ubuntu boot system. This required copying boot data from the other
>> systems to #1's boot menu.
>>
>> alex
>>     
You must have done something incorrectly.... two hard drives
should get along very nicely. All I can say is, try again.
alex



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