Win XP and Ubuntu Linux Dual Boot (Ubuntu First)
This article is about dual-booting Ubuntu Linux for-8, 04 (Herdy Heron) and Microsoft Windows XP;. Ubuntu, which is already installed in the system
to manage the dual-boot should boot manager. In Windows, we know that as a bootloader and Ubuntu it is called GRUB.
When we install XP after Herdy Heron, it will completely overwrite GRUB with its boot manager. Unfortunately, until now, Windows is not good enough to deal with this kind of situation or they simply do not want their users the experience of other operating systems.
so that after installing XP you will only see the XP startup screen, it will be Linux. Now we have to reinstall grub to see them together. To do this, you will need to install Ubuntu OS CD. Insert it into the CD ROM and restart the computer. Select your preferred language. Select Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer. This will lead you to boot up the live session.
Now go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal. Then type "sudo grub" and press Enter.
"> grub" This is what you will see and will keep seeing until you finish a tough session.
Now just type "find / boot/grub/stage1" after "> grub" and it will appear rough.
You'll find something like "(HDX, Y)", where X and Y be two numbers. If you are a newbie, you need to know immediately what this means.
For example, it is "(hd0, 1)" It should be "> grub (hd0, 1)" look.
Now enter "root (hd0, 1)" It should be "> grub root (hd0, 1)" look.
Now type "setup (hd0)" It should be "> grub setup (hd0)" look.
if everything goes right you will see some lines with success.
Now you can type "stop ".
Delete Ubuntu From a Dual Boot Vista Setup With Super Grub Disc
Here is a quick little tip for if you operate a computer in a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Vista.
do exactly this, because I've been programming Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications from Ubuntu, but the lack of Photoshop is killing me. So I did some research and eventually discovered andLinux (the future of the one-day), which lets you run Ubuntu Linux as a Windows service. So it is now solved all my problems when it comes to being able to do the design and programming at the same operating system (which I really need to do is buy a Mac, but who has so much money?).
, so I booted into Linux in about 3 months. It's no big deal, because it's nice to know that there is a partition exists, if we need it. But the problem is that I recently started running a little low on hard disk. I found it kind of strange because I was only about 2,000 songs on my computer, and now very few films.
But I have the 40GB Linux partition just sitting there.
So I went to delete the partition and recover some space. What is important though is that you make sure to replace the Linux bootloader that is installed when you install Ubuntu, or you will lose the ability to boot into Vista after you delete Ubuntu. So let's start with replacing the bootloader first in order to avoid any problems. The process is pretty simple:
1 First you need to download Super Grub Disk and burn ISO image CD.
2nd Next, pop the disc and restart your computer.
3.Super Grub Disk screens are kind of cryptic in the sense that a lot of choices look like gibberish, but it's important you want to delete Linux, so that only Vista:
4th This option resets the Vista bootloader to the Master Boot Record, forcing your computer to automatically boot the next time Vista starts up.
5th Now, restart your computer, click "Start", right click "Computer" and select "Manage"
6th On the left side (in the menu tree), click on "Disk Management"
7th Find your old Linux partition, right-click it and select "Delete Volume"
8th After deleting, right click your existing Windows partition, and click "Extend Volume"
Now you should have recovered from the premises of the old Ubuntu installation. If you have a swap partition for Linux, you can delete that as well.
Now just remember that it is only after back up everything on your Linux install!