Question:
How do I reinstall Windows if I have Linux installed. Can I use the Windows XP installation disk?
2008-06-25 11:07:19 UTC
Im going to install Linux over my windows partition, but for future refrences If i want to install windows xp again could I just pop in the Windows XP installation disk and install over the partition containing Linux without any problems?
Three answers:
Sp II Guzzi
2008-06-25 15:39:43 UTC
You already have Linux installed? Well if you want windoze it will overwrite your MBR and kill grub / lilo.



If you need windoze more than Linux, reinstall windows, and eventually get around to fixing grub.



If you need your computer, and Linux will give you the necessary features, read up on how to reinstall grub after installing windoze (before you reinstall windoze!). There is a program I have seen called supergrub (I think). Read up on that, it may be an easy grub reinstaller - I haven't read more than the headlines, so you have to go with that from here. Anyway read up enough to understand your options, and proceed.



With caution.
Liz
2008-06-25 11:14:39 UTC
Well, yeah sure. You will need to reformat the partition with NTFS because chances are very good you will be using the non windows readable etx3 file system for your ix.



Why not Dual boot?



Chop your drive up in to a few parts,

install Windoz, then install your Linux distro on the other partition, then let Lilo or Grub load which ever one you want to use....
hachenburg
2016-09-08 02:13:43 UTC
Actually, the XP set up disk won't recognize the filesystems - it simplest helps the closed supply Microsoft filesystems. I'd suggest you to get Ubuntu nine.04 Jaunty - it boots to computing device in 25 seconds, and with the brand new ext4 filesystem I do not get any sound out of my rough disk while it boots. A complete examine at the filesystem (ordered each and every thirty instances you mount a partition) on my 300GB track partition - it took simplest 10 seconds. You must without difficulty make an area utilising the Ubuntu partitioning software, after which set up home windows. If Windows can not see your rough drives, this can be a fault of Windows - I believe you're harassed. Ubuntu takes no facet in booting to a home windows disk. You would use your Ubuntu disk to layout your rough disk to fat32 or NTFS filesystem. In brief, it's XP disk which has many disorders - Ubuntu has no disorders with its possess filesystems, or home windows filesystems - however truthfully the brand new ext4 filesystem is so a lot more complex than NTFS that I could not ever assume going again. I uncover the nice answer is to put in XP creating a 20GB deploy partition as I do it, after which make a 40GB NTFS partition that may b e accessed by way of XP and used for backups/shared documents - then set up Ubuntu to a 20GB root partition, with the relaxation of the disk being partitioned as a /dwelling partition for individual stuff.


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