How to set up a PC which can be booted from Linux AND Windows?
- by Martin
Our PC was running Windows XP up to know. It has become incredibly slow and I'm considering switching to Linux (Ubuntu?!) as a fresh OS.
However, there are some applications we rarely use which run only on Windows and I also want to have the possibility to easily go back to the old system, if I should find during testing linux, that anything is missing or not available.
So the idea is to install Linux on a new (second) hard drive and use the existing Windows XP from a virtual machine (converted by Paragon Drive Backup) in the transition time.
We have a lot of data on the PC, tens of GBs of Photos (managed by Picasa), ...
My questions:
What could be the best way to setup the new hard drive? (Partitions)
I assume that I can not access the Linux data from Windows but I could access (read/write) windows drives from Linux?
Does anyone know good tutorials for this use case?
What other things might I have to consider for transition Windows-Linux?