<html><head></head><body>Actually, it's the other way around. There's a long documented list of things Microsoft has done to make dual booting as hard as they can without getting slapped by DoJ.<br>
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The basic way to dual boot is this:<br>
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Start with a blank(ed) hard drive. Install win7 first and only allow it half the hard drive. Leave the second half unpartitioned. Do all the windows updates even though it may take days and many reboots. Now install Linux on the empty space. Learn how to reinstall grub using a live CD because later win7 updates will screw it up and you won't be able to boot to Linux.<br>
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The better solution is boot from your favorite Linux distro disk, wipe the drive and install Linux ONLY and never look back. If you must use some windows application for work, learn how to use virtual machines from Linux. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 28, 2015 9:56:17 PM EDT, John Caruso <misrerenobis@aol.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><font size="2">This last time after about 6 or 7 tries Ubuntu trashed both of my hard drives and would not run. I had a backup of Windows 7 taken about 3 weeks ago and some of the 7 dvds I used were useless so I basically lost everything and did not have Linux afterward. I think there is an incompatibility between Win 7 and Linux. Don't know if I want to go thru that again.Maybe Linux was not meant to share an OS.</font><br />
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