Now now, I'm sure your hackles have been raised by a very familiar question, but hear me out.
I'm running Ubntu 12.04 on a Gnome Classic desktop. I would like to install Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit over it, in a dual-boot.
I've been looking over several links as to the procedure: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiOSBoot
How to install Windows 7 after Ubuntu and dual boot?
How can I install Windows after I've installed Ubuntu?
Now, there are many plausible sounding solutions contained within these links. Though the general setup is almost always broken up into 3 discrete steps of creating an NTFS partition, installing Windows, and repairing GRUB; my question here is, which of them should I follow? I'm assuming I can't attempt all of them in sequence without farking something somewhere.
The ones that look most promising to me are:
> Its easy to install duel OS but If you install windows after Ubuntu
> Grub will be affected. Grub is a booting system of Linux base system.
> You can follow above steps or you can do just the following....
>
> Make space for your windows from ubuntu. (Use Disk Utility tools from
> ubuntu) Install windows on freed space. After installing login to
> windows To fix this you can install a program 'EasyBCD' in Windows.
> Download it here
>
> Follow these steps to restore GRUB when after installing EasyBCD:
>
> - Launch the program and select ADD NEW ENTRY from the EasyBCD Toolbox
>
> - Select the 'Linux/BSD' from the operating systems column
>
> - Choose GRUB (Legacy) under type and Click on the ADD ENTRY icon
>
> - Choose YES to the restart prompt GRUB will be displayed after the restart which will detect the Ubuntu partition for you to be able to
> boot into Ubuntu
and
> Installing Windows after Ubuntu is not the recommended process for a
> dual boot Windows and Ubuntu system, but it is possible.
>
> First, you have to make sure that the 50GB free space is available,
> resizing your Ubuntu by using gParted if necessary. Also use gParted
> or Disk Utility to format the the free space as NTFS, this prevents
> Windows 7 from creating an additional boot partition in addition to
> the "C" drive. Next, boot to the Windows DVD installer and install
> Windows on the NTFS partition. Upon reboot, Windows will automatically
> boot and you won't see the grub menu allowing you to choose Ubuntu,
> because the Windows bootloader has replaced grub.
>
> Now, what you need to do is run Ubuntu from LiveCD or LiveUSB and
> install boot-repair.
>
> To install boot-repair, open up a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and
> type the following commands:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get
> update sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair After
> installation, boot-repair will automatically launch, if is doesn't,
> launch it via Dash.
>
> Make sure to select recommended repair to repair grub. Reboot and
> that's it.
>
> You should now have a Grub menu on boot, allowing you to choose from
> Ubuntu, memtest, and Windows 7
What do you think?
