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How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain
the_phenom writes "Thinking of dual-booting your Windoze XP 17" Toshiba P25 laptop? Think again - this one 'uses a DVD with an already setup version of Windows XP Home and then transfers it to the notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus, dual-booting." This reminds me of the unfriendly practice on some PC builders' parts of including an OS "backup" only on a hard-drive partition.
Somehow I think that trying to dual-boot Windows and Linux on a G5 would be slightly more "challenging" than the original question. Somewhere in between breaking into Microsoft's uber-secret code base and reversing every single bit by hand to make it run on a G5, you might just figure that it's not really worth it.
Wow, I had no idea an Apple laptop would dual boot Windows and Linux!
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"No need to pay a computer geek to work his magic on your broken Windows box."
I had no idea Windows machines could be unbroken.
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I guess if you went to the store they have copies there for purchase. Not sure how all of that works, though. Sounds really damned inconvenient to me.
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But number one is still the weak econemy. Hey if msft fixes that, can we really complain?
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I don't think so!!!
how the hell does this even get merited for an article. i could care less how they install windows on a notebook. you can still resize the partition, and use a linux bootdisk without a problem....unless they glue the windows dvd into the dvd player! aha!
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The only Windows XP I know about is the "Devilsown" edition. Is this "home" thing some new release I need to get from IRC?
Yeah. Why spend the money on making your product more valuable when you can spend it on cartons of cigarattes, cheap hookers, and jim beam.
No need to pay a computer geek to work his magic on your broken Windows box.
Uh, if you're paying computer geeks to get your video drivers installed for you, then any post you make to this discussion is automatically off-topic.
Really, what's up with that? I think XP Home is made for people for whom this would be a total non-issue.
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Most people here will believe that this is evidence of Microsoft being anticompetitive, that it's done to make more money for Microsoft.
But that's not what's going on at all!
No, the real reason you have to go through all of the above is so that you'll be forced to agree to be Bill Gates' towel boy.
Hey, you try finding a good towel boy when you have a mansion as big as his. Then you'll understand. If there's anyone who needs towel boys en masse, it's Bill Gates.
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