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To Dual Boot, say Windows and Ubuntu, on separate Hard Drives, you must first meet the prerequisite and then follow the steps mentioned here.

Let Ubuntu repartition your hard drive so you can jump between Windows and Linux on the same PC.

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard drive for both operating systems.

Then Ubuntu installed itself as usual, and the next time I rebooted, the GRUB boot loader offered to boot either Ubuntu (default) or Windows XP. Wow!

I set it up to dual-boot Windows and Fedora practically first thing, then later switched from Fedora to Ubuntu on the Linux side.

Tech Services & Software Dual-boot Windows and Linux, step 1: Get Ubuntu The transition from Windows to Linux begins by preparing an Ubuntu installation CD.