On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Davin Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another question about your laptop running a dual boot Linux and Windows...
>
> When you installed Linux on your laptop, did you have to format the C drive
> first?
>
> Then did you install Linux... what variant of GNU/Linux are you using? I am
> using lubuntu
>
> Then finally, did you have to reinstall windows on to your laptop.
>
> I phoned Global PC's and they recommended a $500 laptop with 4 gigs of RAM,
> a 1 TB hard drive and they told me
> that I would need to reinstall Windows to get a dual boot system working on
> a single hard drive machine.

If it comes with windows on it, you can install linux and it will
repartition the disk, with windows still there on a smaller partition.
So no, you don't have to reinstall windows.
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