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Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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Originally Posted by darthlinux (Post 34415575)

Thanks you never know with me and how ever it is windows I had to give ubuntu up as my family can only use windows so until I get me a lappy gotta stick with windows xp

I am still yet to try it but willl let you guys know once done

Could always dual boot ;)

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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Originally Posted by darthlinux
Thanks you never know with me and how ever it is windows I had to give ubuntu up as my family can only use windows so until I get me a lappy gotta stick with windows xp

I am still yet to try it but willl let you guys know once done

A wiz havin tae guess;)

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Could always dual boot

vm even??
Ubuntu vm, running on top of XP host.........running Wine to run XP app....:)

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

when dual booting is it best to use seperate hd's

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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Originally Posted by darthlinux (Post 34415950)

when dual booting is it best to use seperate hd's

It doesn't really matter just be a bit careful about which partition you install to ;)

Formatting the wrong partition or even drive is a pain in the backside and I should know Did it once when reinstalling windows wiped my Data drive instead

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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when dual booting is it best to use seperate hd's

Dont matter really although two drives is always an advantage i think, regardless of what your doing with them.:)
All our desktops use two drives although none are ever Windows on mine.
There is an xp drive on the other desktop there though.

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It doesn't really matter just be a bit careful about which partition you install to

Formatting the wrong partition or even drive is a pain in the backside and I should know Did it once when reinstalling windows wiped my Data drive instead

If using one drive i think the easiest way is to just to split the drive in two,install windows first and leaving the other half unallocated install *buntu(for example) to "largest continous free space".

The same if your just shrinking your current Windows partition,just leave the newly created space unallocated and install *buntu to "largest continuous free space" during the partitioning stage.

Of course you can start faffing about with manual partitioning and making XYZ partitions beforehand but the quickest,easiest way is the above imo.

EDIT:remembering of course to defrag a few times first if carving a current Windows partition/drive up.

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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Originally Posted by xpod (Post 34415981)

Execpt in laptops of course where its generally not possible to have 2 internal drives... although I believe there to be a few laptops around that actually can/do have 2 hard-drives.

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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Execpt in laptops of course where its generally not possible to have 2 internal drives... although I believe there to be a few laptops around that actually can/do have 2 hard-drives.

1 drive,2 drives.....dont matter eh..
Gparted soon solves the problem, one way or another.;)

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?

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Originally Posted by xpod (Post 34416078)

1 drive,2 drives.....dont matter eh..
Gparted soon solves the problem, one way or another.;)

Unless its a mac where you need a partiton tool that can either work with the EFI partition table or ingores it

Most just say Nope :mad: although the one on the debian etch installer did resize and NTFS partition for me, then i just got refit to sync the EFI table with the MBR.