Rob Farquhar wrote: > Hi all! Just a quick message to let you know that I successfully > reformatted my root partition and installed 9.04. So far it seems to > have recognised my home folders without any trouble. Thanks everyone for > your help and suggestions! > > As for my friend Dave's PC, it looks as though his XP installation has > finally given up the ghost. It was already riddled with quite a few > viruses, including Koobface; I've backed his vital data up to an > external hard drive and am planning to reformat his internal HDD and > install Ubuntu Studio 9.04. > > One question, though: We've discussed him buying a legit version of XP > Home so he can still run Windows apps and play games like Diablo. Would > there be any issues with installing XP after Ubuntu instead of before? > > Cheers, > > Rob Farquhar > > Rob, It is advisable to have windows installed 1st as Ubuntu will write a boot manager in the master boot record for all operating systems. Windows will blow it away & only allow access to Windows & nothing else. You can recreate the grub menu but it is a long winded process .
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