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comda

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Dual booting systems-> Need a little help with Setup
« on: November 29, 2011, 03:12:46 PM »
Alright, so my hard drive on my old Toshiba satellite A40 finally died out. Since I put in a newer 40 GB hard drive, i want to install my OS correctly and make sure i only do it once. So here's what i wish to do. I want to install Windows Xp pro on only 20Gb of the hard drive space. I wanna leave the other 18GB for another operating system however, i'm not 100 percent sure how to set up my partitions to do that. When installing windows XP would i simply type 20GB when creating the partition? and the remainder of the partition would be formatted using the second OS? and would i have a menu bar like in Linux to choose which OS i need at boot up?

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Re: Dual booting systems-> Need a little help with Setup
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 03:22:43 PM »
Create 2 partitions when doing the initial XP install...
Then when installing the 2nd OS point it to the 2nd partition.
NOTE Let us know what OS that will be...
NOTE #2: You are gonna run out of room soon on both of those partitions...just sayin.
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Re: Dual booting systems-> Need a little help with Setup
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 03:36:38 PM »
And yes, if you create one partition you will be offered the option of assigning the remainder of the space to the second partition.

No - no slider.

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Re: Dual booting systems-> Need a little help with Setup
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2011, 08:31:32 PM »


No - no slider.

what do you mean? and just to clarify i will have the option at boot to select which OS i want to boot from?

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Re: Dual booting systems-> Need a little help with Setup
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2011, 09:02:49 PM »
I wanna leave the other 18GB for another operating system

What other operating system?
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