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 ...

Windows 10 isn’t the only (kind of) free operating system you can install on your computer. Linux can run from just a USB drive without modifying your existing system, but you’ll want to install it on ...

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I recently converted my Toshiba notebook computer into a dual-boot system, running Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu Linux. I was hoping I'd be able to use cross-platform applications such as Mozilla Firefox, ...

We have already seen how to upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, in our last post. Now we will see how to install Windows 8.1 on a separate partition. I did not want to upgrade my existing working ...

The Mac OS X v10.11 El Capitan currently being in the beta stage, it is recommended that a new partition is installed and the new OS X booted alongside the OS X Yosemite or Mavericks, rather than it ...

If you are following this short series I am sure you are itching to get on with 'dual booting' Linux on your Windows XP computer (or the DT MK II) but before we go any further it will be helpful to ...

I've already posted this to the ars MS forum, but I think it's relevant here too and I'm getting desperate...<BR><BR><BR><BR>I run Debian as my main OS, but as I've now go a spare partition I want to ...

Alrighty, so I'm trying to dual boot and I've got to do some really funkey crap to do this. The end result is I wans Ubuntu and Vista on my machine. Unfortunately I apparently only have non-bootable ...

Over the past few weeks several people have asked me if it's possible to set up a Windows XP/Linux dual-boot system on a PC that already has Windows XP installed on it, and if it's possible, how easy ...