Okay, first off I'm new at this kind of stuff, and I'm not very articulate when talking about it so please forgive me. Second off I think that was a run on sentence, my bad. Anyway A few days ago I formatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 10.10. Only thing is, my graphics card isn't supported my Ubuntu and so I can't play any Windows games. So, I brought it back into school and had my friend take another look at it(His name is Cody, he formatted it for me and installed Ubuntu). He partitioned six gigs (I only have 35 gbs, my computer = POS) and was going to install windows, but he didn't have time. So say I have an [i]obtained[/i] copy of XP on a disk, what do I have to do to get it installed on the partition, and I need to know what kind of booting software I need to use.
Like I said before, I know a bit about the computer. I'm still learning, and I'm extremely knew to this kind of shit. So if I ask what something is, I apologize in advance. You've helped me before Facepunch, so can you help me again?
I've heard it is better to format and start with installing Windows, then make a Ubuntu partition.
this should help. [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978307[/url] I was going to write a how to but i'm not a good teacher. also this should remove the Ubuntu partition and if not make it so you can't boot it. so i hope you don't care about it.
you can either make a partition for windows and install it on there and recover the bootloader if you did some serious modification, or if you didn't you can just shove the hard drive into one partition and format it using the gparted livecd and install windows first, then ubuntu.
Go to bios and make it start from cd, or just reset the bios with the jumper (Refer mobo manual for this).
Then put windows CD in, boot pc, it should say something like "Press any key to boot from cd", press a key and then follow the instructions.
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