Loading Windows Xp

[Karl Larsen]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:40:43 -0600
> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
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>> Paul wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> su, 2008-03-16 kello 15:40 -0600, Karl Larsen kirjoitti:
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>>>>> Thanks and I think the Windows format has just one speed. All or none
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>>>> :-)
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>>>>> It may be too big a problem to load windows after you have Linux
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>>>> installed.
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>>>>
>>>> You are not describing your situation clearly enough. Are you trying to
>>>> set up a dual boot system, where you have both Windows XP and Ubuntu
>>>> installed?
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>>> No, he's trying to troll.  Karl is a troll.
>>>
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>>     Your a dirt thrower to bother to send a message like this. But I 
>> will try to get it right so you can all relax. It appears you can't load 
>> windows after you have Linux loaded. Period. It just can't work so I 
>> will stop trying.
>>
>> Karl
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>
> At the risk of making two mistakes [1], you can load Windows after anything else to create a multiboot system, it's just not very straightforward and requires either an extra drive, or the rejigging of one.
> The important bit is that Windows wants to be at the beginning of the primary IDE drive. I've no idea what Windows XP is like with SATA, never tried.
>
> The simple(r) way:
> 1) Move current primary drive to somewhere less primary
> 2) Add new primary drive.
> 3) Install Windows on primary drive
> 4) Reinstall Grub (boot from LiveCD with grub-install on it, or from Grub CD)
> 5) Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst if neccesary
>
> I would imagine it is entirely possible to just clear some space at the beginning of the primary drive if you want, but have never felt the need to try it.
>   
    That is what I did. I moved a swap partition and cleared an old 
partition of linux and that is /dev/hda1 the first partition. The 
problem is the fact that windows XP will not load into that first 
partition on the first hard drive. There is some problem. I have tried 
making it a number of windows file systems but so far XP just ignors it.

So I think the right answer is, nope don't try to load windows on a hard 
drive with linux on it.

Karl




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> 1: Not checking whether Karl is a troll or not and not checking into gory details of question.
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