dual boot question

Steve yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 4 15:52:09 UTC 2009


On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:34:32 +0100, Greg Sander <gregsander at verizon.net>  
wrote:

> I want to know if I can do this.  I currently have a dual-boot system  
> using 2 installations of XP - each on a separate hard drive.  The first  
> drive has my old installation of XP.  The second drive has my new  
> installation of XP.  The boot.ini is on the old XP.  I want to install  
> Ubuntu over the old XP and end up with a dual boot system.  The first  
> drive would have Ubuntu and the second rive would have my new XP.  My  
> concern is that the computer looks to the first drive for the boot.ini  
> (and other windows boot files) to give me my current dual-boot option.
>
> Thanks

I know somebody that’s done this, although it was Vista that was on the  
first drive, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
-- 
Steve




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