You do not have to dual-boot. This is a choice of practicality. Many people dual-boot to get the most functionality out of each operating system without having to purchase multiple computers. Running additional operating systems via another method, such as virtualization, can often impair the operating system's performance or capabilities.
Dual-boot means to have more than one operating system installed on your hard drive, and to switch between them when you start your computer.
In Linux, we have a menu.lst file in boot/grub folder in which we can change the boot order and timeouts.No idea about Windows.!.
dual boot allows you to install the new OS without disturbing the old one so you can boot to either OS.
Dual booting is not restricted to Linux. Dual booting refers to the presence of two operating systems on one computer. Switch/choice between these operating systems is determined at boot time (either via bios or boot manager), therefore only one operating system is at use at a time.
Yes you can. Ubuntu's WUBI uses the Windows bootloader (NTLDR) to boot Linux. It also uses the Windows filesystem (NTFS). This, however, is not the traditional way to do things. The traditional way to dual-boot Linux and Windows is to use a generic bootloader such as Grub to boot both Windows and Linux.
boot the system you need the file to be in, and navigate to the other systems folders.
many linux distributions you can just download and burn to cd and then boot from cd afterwards and most of them have the dual boot option so you don't need to create one but if you'd like to make one you can use a bootloader like grub or syslinux but most linux distros already have a dual boot option.
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You can dual boot anything; as long as they are on different hard drive partitions.
Believe it or not, the drive is not relevant. The hard disk itself does not need any magical setting or capability for you to set up dual-boot. All you need is partitions for your operating system and a bootloader that supports multi-boot (Read: Just about any bootloader other than Windows'.).
You can use the Boot tab of MSConfig to find out if the computer is using a dual boot configuration.
So that you can choose to load either linux or (usually) windows.
You can have more than one operating system installed on a computer at a time. Dual boot allows you the choose which system you want to use. With dual boot enabled, when you turn on your PC it will give you a choice of operating systems.
Dual-boot and Multiple-Boot are pretty much synonymous.
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Dual-boot means to have more than one operating system installed on your hard drive, and to switch between them when you start your computer.