I have windows 7 installed in my laptop.Can I install Linux as well keeping windows 7 as it is?If yes how to do it?And once I installed it, will I be able to set separate security settings to the two?
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Jump to PostAll versions of wondows use a file to find things on the disk this is called the MBR file.
If you install linux it uses a similiar but very different file called grub to do the same job.
MBR windows can only see windows.
Grub can see any operating system.
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