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Install Windows after Ubuntu is installed
Posted by on January 6, 2012
If one has Ubuntu already installed, and then Windows is installed on a different partition, they will notice that grub will be messed up. Ubuntu won’t be found anymore.
Here are the steps to safely do this:
1. Firstly, the data should be backed up. Whenever a new OS is installed, mistakes are easily made.
2. Boot the Ubuntu desktop CD, resize Ubuntu’s partition to make space for Windows. The resulting partition must be a NTFS partition. (Skip this if you already have a NTFS partition.
3. Then install Windows into the NTFS partitions.
4. Next boot into Ubuntu CD again and re-install grub. There is a visual tool that helps. It’s called boot-repair
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Documentation on the tool can be found on Ubuntu boot repair documentation
The tool looks like this:
Thanks for the tip to bodhi.zazen
Once I switched to Ubuntu, I hardly need Windows anymore. But for those few occasions, I installed VirtualBox and installed WinXP in a Virtual Machine. Works fine for me.
Hi
Thanks for reading my post.
I am finding myself also hardly using Windows. But when I need Windows, is for my gaming leisure. And the games I play require powerful graphics and resources. The VM doesn’t handle it. But I agree with you, VirtualBox should be enough for most of the needs.
i just hope this works… if it doesn’t, then bye bye to my linux data :/
You always have to make sure your data is backed up.