On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Erick Brunzell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll grant you that dual-booting with Windows up through XP was fairly > easy, but even about 20% of puters that shipped with Vista used 4 > primary partitions by default. > > That increased to about 80% with Win 7, and while it's still possible > it's definitely problematic. > > I've only seen a few Win 8 puters but they've all used 4 primary > partitions by default ............. that makes installing Linux in a > dual-boot almost impossible! > > I'll grant you that it is possible but quite often one of the primary > partitions is a data partition that can be copied to an external drive > and then copied back to an extended/logical partition, but it's quite a > technical project, and if the user restores Windows using the installed > restoration partition they'll lose all of the data in their Linux > install!!!!!!! > > IMHO it's just not reasonable to give any advice on dual-booting with > Windows 7 or Windows 8, but if I did give any advice the first step > would be to say, "Use Windows own disk utility and see how many primary > partitions exist, if there are 4 just forget about it and consider a VM"! > > Just my opinion, > > Lance Hi Lance, Thank you so much for your email. This email bring back lots of nice and good memories. I remember when I first started to contribute to Linux, that was on Ubuntu Forums with some HOWTOs and Guides[1]. I was also giving great deal of support [2] regarding Dual-Booting but at that time, it was mainly for Windows XP. And, when Windows 7 was there, I was already involved with other things and my attention on supporting Dual-Booting Issues became less. Now, I am no longer interested in this, simply because, I am putting all my strength and skills to support Linux and only Linux. Thanks for bringing back these wonderful memories and I am sure you, oldfred and other good people on Ubuntu Forums are, as always, helping with these issues :) [1] - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1649050 [2] - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1812877 -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."* *Best Regards, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad My Projects: IamNewToLinux <http://iamnewtolinux.blogspot.com/> - StartUbuntu Project<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu> - Linux Brainstorming <https://www.facebook.com/groups/352004991569676/> - Mubuntu<http://amjjawad.blogspot.com/2013/07/draft-mubuntu-simple-minimal-system.html>
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