On 2012-11-17 01:10 (GMT+0100) Ulf Zibis composed:
I have an old bad running WinXP installation, which was installed on partition
1 as C:.
Now I want to move this installation to another partition and make a fresh
WinXP installation on
partition 1.
For some reasons, I want to have the possibility to run the old installation
later. I believe, that
I can run it, if I manually "hide" the 1. partition and mark the 2. as
active/boot, so Windows will
guess the 2. partition as C:.
I Grub smart enough to do that for me when booting the old Windows partition
from the 2. partition?
Ideally I would like to move the old WinXP installation to a "logical"
partition. Would that also work?
So my preferred partitioning would be like:
Primary partition 1: new Windows XP installation
Primary partition 2: Thinkpad Recovery (physically at the end of the of the
harddrive)
Primary partition 3: Ubuntu
Extended partition 4:
Logical partition 5: Ubuntu swap
Logical partition 6: Data
Logical partition 7: Backup
Logical partition 8: old bad Windows XP installation (Copy from originally C:)
Windows primary partitions cannot be "moved" except via sophisticated
understanding and working knowledge of partitioning and the Windows registry.
Windows needs a primary to be C:, but it needn't be "installed" to C:. What
you can do is designate the new installation be "installed" to a logical, as
long as there is a C:/primary to boot from. If there are no other
Windows-native partition types, the logical will be D:, where the new XP
would be installed and run from after booting from C:, much like Linux can
have a separate /boot instead of having everything on /.
If you now have Grub on the MBR, the Windows installation will overwrite it
with standard PC MBR code. Before starting another Windows installation if
you install Grub to your Ubuntu / partition, then either of Windows or Linux
can chainload the other via the standard MBR code Windows will install, as
spelled out on http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html which should
help understanding multiboot with more than one Windows as well as with Linux.
See also:
http://old-en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_set_up_a_working_GRUB.3F
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