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by sparkydabomb

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I would like to wipe my hard drive and reformat with a linux system but yet still be able to use windows.... I need a bootdisk that will bot my grub and drive USB support as well as cdrom drivers..............can anyone offer some help here?

Robert Clifton

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by seanferd

Do not wipe & format your drive. Just install your Linux distro, and let it partition and format enough free drive space for itself, also leaving enough space for Windows. GRUB will be your bootloader, but you can set it to boot either OS by default after a certain amount of time, or boot nothing by default so you always choose.

If you have 2 or more drives, let Linux take one, and Windows the other. In either case, have Windows installed first, then install Linux, and you can chose which OS to boot at startup through GRUB.

by ziggyz27

you can install latest RedHat or Suse it comes with XEN virtualization server. You can install windows has a virtual machine on your linux host OS. Installation will be simple and will not require separate partition.

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