[Cialug] help with reinstalling windows

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

If you're gonna monkey around with dual boot I recommend you go download and
burn a copy of Super Grub Disk (google it).  That disk has saved me a LOT of
headaches in setting up/fixing dual boot.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ralph Kessel <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I've just purchased a new hard drive to reinstall my Windows Vista. I've
> > just updated to Ubuntu 9.0 without any problems and like it very well. My
> > question is how to reinstall windows without destroying my Ubuntu boot
> > connection? Do I just use the boot facitlity of my BIOS?  I'm just trying
> to
> > verify that I don't muck my system up again.  I differ to your
> experience.
>
> If you just wnt to use Windows for a few programs like quicken, MS
> office or some business-type application then you may want to consider
> virtualization. Install VirtualBox and then follow the instructions to
> install Windows Vista in Virtual Box. You can then run Windows and
> Ubuntu at the same time. This won't work if you are hoping to use 3d
> applications like games.
>
> A picture may explain the end-result a little better:
> http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/tmp/moviemaker.png<http://code.bearfruit.org/%7Ematt/tmp/moviemaker.png>
>
> Get VirtualBox for free from http://www.virtualbox.org
>
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