Hi all, I am going to be installing ubuntu on the second of two drives in my hp pavilion dv8040 (the first drive is xp pro)...I've used linux a bit, but only actually installed it once before (And that was 7 years ago - and it wasn't a dual boot situation)...I'm worried that it might affect my windows installation and I don't want to screw that up...Normally I'd have no problem just pressing ahead but in this particular situation, I just really do not want to screw up my windows drive...What will it do when it goes to set up the dual-boot?
Any tips/advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated...Thanx!
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Jump to PostGrub is the bootloader. It lives in the first few sectors of the disk and it is what the pc looks for when it boots up. It will give you the option to boot either XP or Ubuntu
If it goes wrong all is not lost as it can …
Jump to Postyou get to choose. Usually it goes on the first disk.
e.gPC BOOTS UP
BIOS CHECKS HDD1
BIOS READS MBR
BIOS SEES GRUB IN MNR
GRUB SHOWS OS CHOICES
(YOU CLICK ON XP)
GRUB LOADS THE XP BOOTLOADER
THE XP BOOTLOADER STARTS XP
Jump to Post>So it shouldn't hurt xp if grub is in the mbr for the disk that xp is on?
No.
Jump to Postand if it does hurt it, you just need to stick in your xp cd and type a simple command which will delete grub and reinstall the stock xp bootloader.
also DO NOT install grub if your PC relies on a recovery paritition instead of OS media as it …
Jump to PostOk, so after some searching, I found this link...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How_to_dual-boot_Ubuntu_and_XP_after_installing_them_separately_on_two_HDs?highlight=%28dual-boot%29The tutorial has one or two minor inaccuracies, such as this one:
If your Windows is on a second SATA you have to use …
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