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Installing a copy of Windows on a Spare Partition.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2006 07:40 PM
If you're starting with a new hard drive and want your Linux distros to coexist with Windows, install Windows first."

This is not necessary.

For a nice writeup of how to install Windows after Linux and how to use grub generally, see:

<a href="http://linux.coconia.net/addingXP.htm" title="coconia.net">http://linux.coconia.net/addingXP.htm</a coconia.net>

It is called: "Installing a copy of Windows 2000/XP on a Spare Partition."

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