-- Posted by thejazzman4 at 4:47 am on Feb. 25, 2004 i recently purchase linux redhat but have heard that you need to partition your hard drive... i have fdisk but dont know how to use it as i already have two partitions on my hard drive. i dont want to lose my windows on backup partitions because i have no copies (its factory pre-installed). please help. thanks type your post here  type your post here -- Posted by Cerberus at 9:09 pm on Feb. 26, 2004 Hmm, you usually have a factory disk that goes with your facotry installation.  So losing your OS isn't much of a concern, just all the other information. You heard correctly about partitioning.  Windows dispises other OS's and will not allow them to run on the same drive as it.  Anyway, you can partition your drive more than twice, depeding on the drive, but i don't think fdisk will be able to accomplish the task.  You will need a program to do such a thing.  Or just get another hard drive and load Linux on there, and swith the primary and slave drives when you wish to use the OS. -- Posted by vitamin at 3:14 am on Feb. 27, 2004 Depending on your version of linux, linux handles the partioning! And allows you to run dual boot! -- Posted by i r sekz at 4:10 pm on Feb. 27, 2004 i have done this on my test computer i followed an article online that told me how to do it let me look around and find it -- Posted by thejazzman4 at 3:14 am on Feb. 28, 2004 how are you able to dual boot??? -- Posted by vitamin at 3:20 am on Feb. 28, 2004 well at the boot loder you shoudl get the option of Linux , Linux Conf , Windows! You just go to windows and press enter -- Posted by spookedgal at 1:46 am on Mar. 22, 2004 If I remember correctly, to set up a dual boot with Linux and windows is to install linux and you will be asked to partition your HDD during installation. There could be more to it because when I just had linux and needed winodws as well i installed windows then did a rescue on linux by putting in the linux installation cd -- Posted by darkfollower at 7:39 am on April 16, 2004 Or you can find a SCUSI hard drives transfer windows to one and linux to the other and when you boot up it asks you which HD you want to use to boot from -- Posted by mephisto mortis at 1:40 pm on July 14, 2004 this is how i did it: go into bios set my primary hd (i have 2) partition and install linux on my primary hd go into bios and set other hd as primary install windows go into bios and switch hd's again setup GRUB (boot loader) *this is for doing it on 2 seperate hard drives NEVER install linux before windows because win overwrites the mbr and you will have to re-setup the boot loader