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installing windows xp with ubuntu linux (dual boot)

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i have problems with ubuntu linux since i installled ubuntu linux i cant install windows xp or vista to my partition. i formatted my partion but xp installation stops and reboots it self and then on the screen there is only this _ underscore sign nothing the xp or vista doesnt contiune installation. ubuntu linux can t see my external harddisk, it says mount problem

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Zagadka77 (zagadka77) said : 		#1

Can you say what kind of hardware do you have?

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Olexandr Zanichkovsky (ozanichkovsky) said : 		#2

Seems that Windows XP (perhaps Vista too) installs well to the first partition of the first hard disk...

I've tried to install windows XP after Ubuntu was installed:

These are the steps I did:

1. Windows XP install CD showed '_' too. That is why I freed some space with GParted using Ubuntu Live CD to install Windows XP to the first partition.

2. Windows XP was installed successfully.

3. I restored Grub. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

NOTE: if you'll do this the same way as I did you'll need to update /etc/fstab (use "sudo fstab -l" without quotation marks to get list of partitions) and to update /boot/grub/menu.lst (in my case I updated all references of (hd0,0) to (hd0,1))

Best Regards,
Olexandr Zanichkovsky

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