Would you recommend installing windows on a separate partition??
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It's always best to put Windows on C:.  The reason, there are applications that expect it to be there.  So, some of these (badly written) applications don't work correctly if it's installed on D: or E:.  So, I don't recommend installing windows on a drive letter other than C:.\n\nNow, if you are asking if you should install it on a separate partition from your apps, it really doesn't matter.  If all partitions are on the same physical hard drive, then there is no benefit.  So, if only one drive, I recommend creating one big partition and putting Windows and Apps all on the same drive.  If you have two physical disks, then you will have to split them up (unless you choose to stripe the disks together)... which I don't really recommend.\n\nOf course, all of this information shouldn't preclude you from backing up your data frequently.  If your data is important to you, then you will need to make copies of it so you can recover it should your hard drive fail.
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Yes you will lose windows , unless you partition your drive and make a new space for a new version of windows. Partitioning splits your drive into separate segments so you can have 1,2,3 or 4 operating systems on one hard drive.  Partition magic is a good tool for this.  When you boot your system , you will have a choice of windows to use.   Id advise you not to format your drive if you are unsure what to do , and dont have a genuine copy of windows to reinstall with.
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can you duel boot? partition the HDD & then have seperaste o/s on each partition.\n\nI have winxp & linspire 5-0 running on 1 pc.
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Get a copy of Windows XP and install it.\n\n-J
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If you insert the windows cd, there will be option for for formating/clean install and recovery from back up called known good configuaration.\n\nbut I recommend it slightly differently. To be safest, create partition in hard drive. then back up your previous installation there. Install fresh in other drive.
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When you install Ubuntu, it will ask you if you want to erase the current partitions or if you want to use the existing free space.  I think you may have to erase your current Windows partition, and then create a new space in the Ubuntu setup so that Windows can be installed.  Once GRUB is installed, it will let you select either Ubuntu or Windows.  It's been a long time since I dual-booted Linux and Windows.  I gave up after Windows screwed up on installing XP SP2.  \n\nAnyway, for a person that has never used Linux before, I would highly reccomend Ubuntu, except for that its setup can be a bit challenging.  It does come with OpenOffice and Firefox and Gaim, which is about the best IM app ever, and all three are also available for Windows.  You definitely need to use the Ubuntu Guide, though.
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If you want to keep linux (i dont know why you would want to keep it) you are going to have to do whats called a disk partition (i believe for linux the program is called disk drake) and then once you do that pop in your windows cd and select the empty partition to install windows on.
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It might help if you state here exactly the message shown on your PC when you try to install Windows, as this could give some idea what is happening. \n\nIf you have eg a Windows XP disk, you wouldn't need to use your boot disk. Start up the PC, put the Windows Disk in the disk drive and if necessary restart the PC with the Windows Disk still in the disk drive.\n\nThis should be enough to install Windows. If you have Windows 98 you will however need a start up disk too, although don't insert it into the floppy drive until requested.
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No way,  When you are doing that type of activity you will lose all files on that particular disk.  Formating and partioning goes beyond the drive protection paramaters and data integrety is lost complelety.  YOu will have to move your files onto like a thumb drive or cd and then copy them back.  If you are hellbent on keeping the files on the drive you are working on You can create another partiion put all of your files on this other partition.  REzise the parition to a really small disk (like 15mb or however large the files are) then format the first partition.  Install your OS.  then Merge both partiions.  But that is just crazy and most likely data will be lost.
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and what is the problem? any way you like, but there is one limitation, you can't repartition drive where windows is already installed using windows partition utility, so anyway it's better to use 3d party partitions progs. for example disk director.
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Windows 95!! Haven't done that in a while...\n\nInsert the first of the disk into the floppy drive of the computer.  It should boot up from that disk and offer you an option to install Windows.  Tell it yes and simply follow the prompts from there.  You will need to switch disk whenever it tells you to.  Beyond that, it is pretty simple and straight forward and you should be able to do it.\n\nIf you have problems, e-mail with the question and I will try to help you through it.
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Though I do not know why you would want to, you can do that, but you can only use one of those operating systems at a time.  I would not bother though seeing as XP realistically is a much better OS (especially with SP2) and will do everything that 2000 will.  It is up to you, but realize, the OS that is on your default boot drive will be the one that loads up.  So if you set the default boot drive to C: then XP will load.  There are a couple ways around it, but you can still only run one at a time.  Besides, those two would likely conflict with one another anyway.
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with out a program called partition magic(or something like it) you will have to restore your comuter with the windows disk and it will ask if you want to partition it. After it is done you will need to format the extra drives. It will ask you if you want to when you try to access it.
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Partition Magic might be able to do it from outside Windows. You can download a free trial version from a link on this page at PC World's website. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7324,00.asp
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A clean install is not always necessary, slightly better stability and performance can be expected when XP is installed to a clean hard drive or partition. \n\nIts nothing to do if u want to take the hard drive.
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Install Windows first.  When you create the Windows partition be sure to leave room for Linux.  After Windows is installed, install Linux.  Most distributions will automatically configure your system to dual boot and automatically create the Linux partitions.  Ubuntu does.  I know because I am using it.  It is that easy.  \n\nAs far as hardware, just check the system requirements for Windows and the distro of Linux you choose.  Pay particular attention to the hard drive space requirements so you know how to partition the hard drive.
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This i would installing Windows Me and partition the drive and then install windows xp. It should install a boot loader. that is basically what you need is a boot loader to choose which version of windows you want to run at a certain time.