How to triple boot windows XP,vista and ubuntu

January 19th, 2009 | by admin |

If you have got a PC with some good resources(CPU,Ram and Harddisk) then you should try some different OS on a single machine.Currently Windows XP,vista and ubuntu are the mostly used OS so you should use all of them in a single PC like i m using.Although you can try some different OS using Vmware or microsoft virtual PC but to run different OS in vmware at the same time will require lots of RAM.

The Process of installing all these 3 OS is quite simple let me write it down for you.

Installation of Windows XP

1) Suppose you have a PC with blank Harddisk of 40 GB.

2) Insert Windows XP CD into cd rom and boot from CD.

3) Go through all the steps until you get a screen asking about partition.

4) Now its the time to create some partitions as we have supposed that we have a blank HD.

5) Create 4 partition of equal sizes and select C for the installation of Windows XP.

6) Now as windows XP is installed go to my computer and format the rest 3 partitions by right clicking and select format then NTFS as file system type.

Now lets start the installation of windows vista.

1) Insert windows vista CD in to cd rom.

2) Boot from CD.

3) Continue until you get a partition screen.

4) Now select D for the installation of windows Vista as we have already installed windows XP in C.

5) Now wait until windows vista gets installed.

6) After the installation of windows vista you will be treated with windows vista boot loader and showing you 2 option to select windows XP and windows Vista.

7) Now start windows Vista.

Now lets start the installation of ubuntu.

1) While running windows vista insert ubuntu CD in to cd rom.

2) You will have a nice looking WUBI installer.

3) Select second option install inside windows.

4) It will ask some of your details username,password and partition to install.

5) Select E for the installation of Ubuntu and begin installation.

6) In some minutes you will have ubuntu installed.

7) Now you will have 3 options in windows vista boot loader Windows XP,Vista and Ubuntu.

Windows XP,Vista and ubuntu has now been installed to your Computer have fun !