Re: [Sheflug] Ultimate dual booting guide

[Lesley Anne Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:16 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote:
> > Steve Fisher wrote:
> > > Came across this:
> > > 
> > > http://apcmag.com/node/5162/
> > > 
> > 
>
<snip>
> > 
> > I could sit down and repartition and reinstall or buy a partitioning 
> > ssoftware but this set of articles appears to claim that Ubuntu can do 
> > the partitioning for you.
> > 
> 
> I've used gparted a few times and found it to work really well. I've
> also used the commercial Partition Magic which also did the job.
> 
> > My question is how reliable is the Ubuntu partitioning software?  Will 
> > it preserve the XP install or will it make it unbootable or wreck the
> data?
> > 
> It is based on gparted so should be ok
> 
> > Before anyone says - go make an XP rescue disk - I don't have a floppy 
> > drive on the laptop.
> > 
> 
> Can you do it with a usb stick?
No idea.  Would be BIOS dependent as one has to boot from 
it in times of need.  I'm sure I've heard of people booting
 from a USB stick not sure how it's done though and fairly
 sure it was Linux not Windows.  The whole point being that
 I wouldn't want to lose what I have already installed via 
XP.
  
As you can tell I've never rescued an XP OS either.  I 
think the XP rescue disk creation program expects to use a 
floppy thus making it impossible to use a CD or USB???

The important thing to me is that XP still operates 
afterwards.  

One other thing I noticed is that the article seemed to 
recommend booting into XP a couple of times to get it to 
settle down with the new partition regime while leaving XP 
aware of the 'alien' partition.  When I have dual booted 
in the past I am sure I made XP 'forget' the partition 
existed.  This was to avoid some evilness which meant the 
'alien' partition would be mangled by XP.  Does anyone know
 if this is still necessary?

Regards

L.








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