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Posted 23 April 2010 - 05:28 AM

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Many of you have asked how to dual boot Windows and Linux well, I am going to show you how to dual boot with a partition rather than Wubi with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10, not I am using both as 64bit, this should work with them as 32bit or 64bit.

What you will need:

blank CD's or a USB that you can boot from (I will not cover how to make the CD's or USB's)
Windows already installed
Ubuntu or other linux distrobtion
Windows Recovery CD/USB (optional - depends of you wish to use GRUB or Microsoft Boot Manager
if you wish to use Microsoft Boot Manager then you also want to have EasyBCD

I am going to skip ahead assuming you already have your Linux live CD burned or imaged to a flash drive.

1) Boot up into your BIOS, in my case that is F2 when my system starts. You will want to make sure that you go to the Boot tab, and put your removable media (usb) or CD/DVD rom to boot first (top of the list) when you've done that you will want to save and exit (in my case F10) make sure you save your option. Usually CD/DVD is set to boot first by default, you should use this step to double check even if you are sure it has higher priorities than your hard drive.

2) Now we are going to start the installation of Linux, on the live CD (my case Ubuntu) you will follow the instructions how you would install normally.

When you get to the Ubuntu splash screen after you have chosen your language you can either live boot it or install it from here, the install process is the same, for the purposes of this tutorial I am going to install it.

3) After we have selected install (either from the live desktop or from the splash screen we will follow the installation standard until we step 4 of the install

Now we this will depend on your preferences. Now from the live cd you can adjust how much hard drive space you want to allot to either operating system. for me I am going to leave it at 23.5gb:16.5gb

Now once you have the partitions set up you will set up the system as you would normally.

Now you will wait for the install. By default it installs grub which is your bootmanager, I suggest using it since it is correct, if you chose not to use it. Follow the Following instructions

Restore Windows bootmanager
1. Put the Windows installation or recovery disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer.
2. Press a key when the message indicating "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD …". appears.
3. Select a language, a time, a currency, and a keyboard or another input method, and then click Next.
4. Click Repair your computer.
5. Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next.
6. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.
7. Type Bootrec /RebuildBcd , and then press ENTER.

Now you will not be able to boot into Linux, so download and install EasyBCD so that you can add the Linux partition to the boot up list.

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 02:17 PM

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 08:33 PM

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QUOTE (Badcam3™'s Pokemon @ Apr 28 2010, 10:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's because if you use a bootable usb you need to set the system to boot from the usb not the cd.

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Posted 23 May 2010 - 06:56 PM

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Will this work for the newest version

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Posted 24 May 2010 - 02:08 AM

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Yes the only thing different is the pictures, since the graphics are different for 10.04. However, I personally do prefer to do the partition from windows (do not format it) and then tell Ubuntu to use the largest free space.

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 09:09 AM

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Will this make my computer slower or anything like that...?

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 09:57 AM

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Posted 01 July 2010 - 07:16 AM

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QUOTE (ÜrɃaN GΣΣk @ Jun 30 2010, 05:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Will this make my computer slower or anything like that...?

No it does not, idk who first started saying that, but the 2 operating systems don't run at the same time. You boot select windows or linux (or bsd if you chose bsd) and to boot into the other OS you need to reboot the machine. I dual boot on a netbook with no problems at all.