I just bought a laptop, and it has Windows Vista on it. Vista is a pain in the butt, for me, at least, and I would like to have a dual boot with Ubuntu. Vista comes with a program to partition the drive, but is that partition suitable for loading another OS. I haven't looked at it yet, so I was wondering if anyone had the answer.
2007-02-09 07:34:55 · 4 answers · asked by senorpresidente85 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Just create the partition for Vista and install it. When you are installing UBUNTU it will give you some options for partionning. Select "use the largest available free space"
2007-02-09 09:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by hitechsleuth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should use Acronis Disk Director to partition your drive for Vista and Ubuntu. Disk Director has a feature OS Selector that will allow you to install up to 100 operating systems on one computer. You can boot an operating system from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition.
For more info follow the link below.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
2007-02-10 06:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably, but what might work nice as well would be to use Microsoft Virtual PC. It's a free download from MS, I use it to run XP while in Vista for some legacy applications. There are some quirky hardware limitations (USB printer support is lacking)
2007-02-09 15:44:27 · answer #3 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have installed Windows XP and Ubuntu on the same PC. I would assume that it would be the same for Vista.
Take a look at this video tutorial and see if it helps.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6104490811311898236
2007-02-09 15:41:06 · answer #4 · answered by timmy_sieber 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋