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preacher:
Im wondering how well linux handles dual boot situations with XP. I have a friend who says that he couldnt get Mandrake 9 to dual boot with Windows 2000 because of ntfs. Is this a problem?

shuiend:
I right now am dual booting Red Hat 8 and windows XPiss just fine. Just make sure you intall XP as fat32 so if it gets screwed uyou can fix it in linux.

preacher:
The system Im dealing with already has XP installed on it, and it was done with ntfs. Has anyone done a successful dual boot in this situation?

rtgwbmsr:
Linux (some distros) only has NTFS read support. You can install a distro along side it if and only if you have a free fat32 partition or unpartitioned space. If you don't, then you definately can't install Linux.
(NTFS == Closed format && Doesn't play nice)

voidmain:
Yes you can dual boot it, but you have to shrink that NTFS partition down to make enough unpartitioned space to install Linux. Partition Magic can do that for you.

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