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How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the step-11-involves-a-hair-shirt dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Come on with the Powerbook G5s! by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yet one more reason I'm going to buy an Apple laptop (someday).

    Wow, I had no idea an Apple laptop would dual boot Windows and Linux!

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  2. Uh, why do you want XP Home anyway? by simetra · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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