Dual Boot Linux/Windows 7

pasta_paul

I've been a long time user of Ubuntu on my home desktop, but for some things you just need Windows. I downloaded the Windows 7 RC and got a key for it, and I'd like to dual-boot. I've tried several dual-boot guides, but I'm having trouble following them because of my odd partition layout. Here's how it appears in GParted: Drive 1: /dev/sda1 : fat32 (Empty) /dev/sda2 : extended /dev/sda5 : ext3 (Ubuntu Root) /dev/sda6 : swap Drive 2: /dev/sdb1 :...

Originally asked by Cassie Meharry on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 2.5).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Booting windows on drive2 is tricky - you might get grub to do it but it will cause problems in windows later. Can you swap them so that Windows is the first drive?

Full answer by Martin Beckett: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/38026 (CC BY-SA 2.5).

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