[Novalug] reverse linux question

[Angelo Bertolli]

Nino Pereira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my question is exactly the opposite of what I should ask:
> I blame that on my son.
>
> Some time ago I loaned him my linux laptop computer. It turns
> out that he never figured out how to use the system. For him it's
> a pain in the ^(7r: his whole world uses Windows, and the various
> conversions (between, say, OpenOffice and Word) are too bothersome.
>
> So, my question is: how do I add Windows? or, as he tells me,
> his question is: how do you get linux off the machine and Windows
> on it.
>
> A painful question, but one for which I have no answer. I have 
> seen the thread about dual-boot, and ignored it.
>   

Briefly speaking, you want to use something like gparted to shrink the 
partition(s) you have for linux to leave room at the end of the disk.  
Then you want to install Windows, using that free space only.  Windows 
might overwrite the MBR, so it would be a good idea to have a copy of 
GRUB on a removable disk, but I found that I can boot into my linux 
system just using something like an Ubuntu install disk doing a chroot.  
Then, use grub-install /dev/hda to reinstall grub into the master boot 
record.

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