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Good day guys, I just installed ubuntu and it replaced my current OS Windows 7 Ultimate. Now I want to go back to windows and try to install XP but now I'm unable to install ANY VERSION OF WINDOWS because others says that it requires IDE as controller. Unfortunately, I can't change it in BIOS at startup.Please help guys :(

thefourthXian
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If you tried out Ubuntu, and you found it's not your cup of tea, great. However, I would not recommend installing Windows XP, as it is no longer supported by Microsoft as of April 8. I would suggest either A) just go back to Windows 7 or B) try out another Linux distro, such as Xubuntu. There are plenty of options to choose from.

However, if you really want to install Windows XP, AFAIK there is no way in software to change the BIOS. Here are my suggestions:

  1. Make sure you know what button to press when your computer starts up (some common ones are F12, F7, and Del)
  2. Check your BIOS settings again. You may have missed something if you actually have looked in there.
  3. Like I said before, just don't try installing XP. I honestly don't think it's worth it.

EDIT: I guess this is not what you wanted. I'm going to try again.

Here are my suggestions if your computer won't let you install Windows at all:

  1. Burn a GParted CD on one of your computers--whichever one works at the moment.
  2. Boot to the GParted CD and create a new partition table on your disk. You probably want to create a Master Boot Record partition table, seeing as you originally had Windows 7. If your computer actually has UEFI (which is a possibility), use a GUID partition table instead.
  3. If installing Windows still doesn't work, try booting into GParted again and creating an NTFS partition on your hard drive.
  4. If all else fails, bring this up on Super User. There should be people there who know more about your problem. This is clearly not an Ubuntu related issue, except for the fact that you want to switch back to Windows from Ubuntu. This is as far as I will help you here.
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biggles5107
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If you really want XP for some things, but want to retain ubuntu, you could install a virtual machine in ubuntu and run xp from there. Either vmware or virtualbox would work.

Charles Green
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