05-13-2020, 09:15 PM
[member=20780]Mike Krall[/member]
It's been a long time since I dual booted or installed windows of any version lol, but I think this is down to the windows boot loader. Simply put the windows boot loader does not recognise a linux OS, only other windows versions.
So, while it is not impossible to install windows after installing linux, it does take extra work as the windows boot loader will overwrite the grub boot loader in the mbr. Grub, will recognise most OS' and is why installing linux after a windows partition is usually preferable for it to work out of the box.
Installing windows after linux involves reinstalling the grub boot loader to mbr from a live cd so that all OS' appear in the grub menu.
Quote:Always before with Win/Linux dual boots I've had Linux after all of Windows. It just worked out that way, really, but I'm thinking there may be a function logic in not having a Window partition hanging out at disk end.
It's been a long time since I dual booted or installed windows of any version lol, but I think this is down to the windows boot loader. Simply put the windows boot loader does not recognise a linux OS, only other windows versions.
So, while it is not impossible to install windows after installing linux, it does take extra work as the windows boot loader will overwrite the grub boot loader in the mbr. Grub, will recognise most OS' and is why installing linux after a windows partition is usually preferable for it to work out of the box.
Installing windows after linux involves reinstalling the grub boot loader to mbr from a live cd so that all OS' appear in the grub menu.
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