Multiple Windows? How to Get More than 1 Windows Type On My Personal?

I really need to know how to get Windows XP, Vista, Linux and ubuntu all on the same personal….is there a way to get all of those on and when i restart my computer i get to chose which one i want to go on to?????

It's very simple, but make sure you’ve enough RAM (I have 3GB, it's plenty) and a video card is important, you'll need to be able to use multiple workspaces/desktops I think - seamless works, but it's ideal to run them full screen and switch screens.

Of course it's nice to have windows apps running on a ubuntu desktop, and most of the time it works great - but if you want to use windows and have access to the video card, then first install XP (smallish 30 to 40GB C: drive) and then follow with Vista (similar, 40 to 50GB C: drive) and then create a third STORAGE partition (NTFS) that you can use for communal files/backups and stuff. Leave space for Ubuntu (another 50GB). Maybe it's cheap enough to throw in a 500GB drive now….

Anyway, there you have it - you can triple boot them, or boot Ubuntu and open XP AND VISTA and run Yahoo Messenger in Vista next to Internet Explorer in XP next to Firefox in ubuntu!

So much fun.

If you have two disks, set the swap partition on the other drive. Use ext3 filesystem (safest and ideal supported) and first try out Virtualbox (I recommend NOT the OSE version in synaptic)

In ubuntu make sure you go to the gnome theme site and check out the following astonishing themes/parts:

Sunday (the one in my cylinder screenshot, brushed steel/gold buttons)

OS V - wow

Darkwood

Mint

Royale-Murrine

Good luck, especially with Vista.

Have fun, zip a file and unzip it first with Vista, then with XP and then with ubuntu - it's funny. One guy put a video on Utube.

Load Windows Xp first… then install Vista, it'll give you the option to install multiboot. Then install Linux and it will convert your boot to the grub bootloader and pick up the XP and Vista installs… there y'go, all three and you can select which at boot time. You can then add more varieties of Linux…

But you'll probably want a separate disk partition for each OS.