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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. Are you lazy, or stupid? by thelizman · · Score: 1, Troll
    1. Install your system from the DVD.
    2. Use a hard drive partition utility like partition majic to resize the partition that Windoze is on.
    3. Reboot the computer, and verify that shit is still working.
    4. Reboot your computer with any half-assed distro in the drive.
    5. Use the available utilty (fdisk, disk druid, whatever) to make the appropriate swap and root partition, as well as any other desired partitions, in the available free space.
    6. Allow the installer to install the boot manager (Lilo, Grub...whatever).
    7. Reboot, make sure shit it working on both sides.