how many windows os can i hav in my laptop and can i hav linux and windows together
2006-12-03 03:49:20 · 8 answers · asked by blacksafari5004 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
presently my home pc hard drive has 3 partitions c: has win xp-pro, d: has win'98se & e: is just a dump folder. all 3 partitions reside on fat32 file systems.
another pc at workplace has similar partitions & similar operating systems, except that c: win xp-pro has ntfs file system, d: & e: have fat32
earlier my home pc had 4 partitions, c: win xp-pro, d: win'98se, e: win 3.11 & f: no os > just dump
e: win 3.11 had fat16 file system & i've forgotten how i did manage that, but i'm pretty much sure., with some trial & error i'll get partitioning & file system sequencing correct !
i've worked with a technician whose laptop had 8 or 9 different partitions, including win 3.11 to win xp & also win nt + linux and all
i have no clue how he did all that.
sure lots of tools like partition magic & boot manager available to do all that stuff
lemme know what os's u need to install & i'll try my best guiding u
2006-12-04 01:11:51 · answer #1 · answered by sεαη 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure about multiple versions of Windows, but Linux/Windows dual-boot systems are possible and fairly common. You can also use VMWare and/or Wine to run Windows as a process within the Linux environment; with this approach, you don't have to reboot to switch operating systems.
2006-12-03 11:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by MarnenLK 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check out Parallels software, available for both Windows and Mac systems (www.parallels.com). It allows you to run 'virtual machines' with any number of os's including Windows (98, XP, Vista), Linux, and others. I'm familiar with the Mac version and it works great!
2006-12-03 20:24:30 · answer #3 · answered by pjs7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many, as many as your computer handle. You make partitions for all individual OS's (Linux, XP Pro, Vista etc) actually partitioning is your friend because the new windows vista you aren't going to want to changeover so quickly so I'd just partition 40G's of your hdd and when you are comfortable just backup the data and overwrite the other partition and redistribute all the data to the vista partitions. My peratitoning tool by choice is partition manager not free but worth it! Hope this helps
2006-12-03 12:11:06 · answer #4 · answered by Absolut_Dogg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you've 80 GB hard disk in your laptop then you can opt. these option
20 GB - 1st Partition
20 GB - 2nd Partition
20 GB - 3rd Partition
20 GB - 4th Partition
In this sequence you can install 4 operating system. You also can install WIN XP & LINUX on same system.
Suggestion - But what I suggest is you go for 2 partitation 1st & IInd Partition. (With Windows - Go for original windows XP) and after that update it with Internet.
3rd & 4th partition for Linux.
2006-12-03 12:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Sumit M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have them as many as pc capacity can accomodate.But sometimes its not good to put more than one OS in the same drive.So it's recomended you create partitions first before intalling the operating systems you want.That it means that you'll be prompted with the screen which'll want to select the operating system to load.
2006-12-03 12:07:10 · answer #6 · answered by The One 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can one windows os in your laptop.
it is to be either linux or windows.
2006-12-03 11:54:42 · answer #7 · answered by Raj 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Morethan one atleast as standby.....
2006-12-03 11:53:37 · answer #8 · answered by Mylapore Mani 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋