I have a acer aspire es15 with preinstalled windows 10.. but i accidently deleted windows and installed ubuntu 14.04 now can I install windows 7 without deleting ubuntu as dual boot without using a live usb?? I heard of EasyBCD but does it work???
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Yes, but you must carefully select the partitions you use for the Windows install to ensure you do not overwrite any partition required by the other OS. Then, once you have installed Windows you must boot Ubuntu from a USB drive/stick. There, you need to install Boot Repair on the USB drive Ubuntu is on and have it repair the Ubuntu Grub bootloader which will detect the Windows partition and included it in the boot options presented at normal boot up. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair - You are best to use the "Advanced Options" selection so you can select which things you want to ensure happen, such as having one of the two OS's boot as the primary OS (so that if you install a Windows or Ubuntu update when it reboots you it will load that OS when it restarts in case you are away from the computer).
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