Dual boot help!!

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harshit143

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Guys today i dual booted my PC with XP in one partition and Seven in another.
Now i am left with one more partition i created and i want to install Ubuntu on that. But the issue is if i ever want to uninstall an OS (say ubuntu in future) , how can i do so??

I have heard that if i uninstall an OS by formatting that partition, the option of that OS still appears in the boot menu while starting the PC, so that means it is not uninstalled perfectly and properly.

Help!!
 
You should always go from the oldest to the newest, additionally from the "Microsoft"iest to the more open ones.

Windows XP writes its own bootloader into the MBR, regardless of what is installed (With the exception of older Windows versions, like Win98)

Windows 7 will find XP and add it to it's own bootloader.

Ubuntu, in turn, will add the Windows bootloader to its own boot menu (grub), which will make selecting a windows version a bit more complicated (worst case: 4 keystrokes) but it is definitely easiest to install.

You should think about transferring data between the operating systems too, so maybe leave a partition (I would suggest 2-10GB, depending on your hard drive size) for data exchange and format it in FAT32.

A last suggestion: If you no not really need to install every operating system in its native partition, maybe you could use the free Sun VirtualBox to virtualize the operating systems which do not need full native access to the hardware. If you want to play games, I would suggest that the gaming OS should be the host system.

The bonus you get from this setup: snapshots and easy full system backups!
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hey look ,,once you format the linux partition its completely gone ,,,but the boot loader remains in the C drive so it is still visible in the boot menu.

And one more thing you cant uninstall an operating system.

you can remove the boot screen option using this tool.

Download EasyBCD 2.1 - NeoSmart Technologies

after formatting the linux partition boot in to windows 7 and install easyBCD tool ....and rewrite the boot loader.
 
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