Solved Dual booting

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After microsoft ended it's support for XP and not being able to afford a windows upgrade right now I decided to install a Linux OS, I did look around relevant post's and a tutorial but I keep coming across conflicting advice. So My question being if anyone could help is whether or not I can install Linux (Ubuntu) on a drive that already has XP (*32) Home edition on it via a recovery partition the machine in question is a small 10" 'Netbook' with only 1 GB ram and a 120 GB hdd. Thankyou.
 
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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
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    Acer aspire E1-571
    CPU
    i5 3230m
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    Onboard Intel HD4000
    Internet Speed
    Up to 50MB if you believe Usain Bolt & Dick Branson.
Yes, you can. Just avoid deleting the recovery partition if you don't have physical media, unless you're absolutely sure you're never going to want to reinstall XP, and if you ever want to get rid of Linux make sure to read up on how to also get rid of the Linux boot manager (usually Grub) and restore the Windows one.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
Yes You can Dual boot XP and Linux
Then you'll be able to run both
Thanks
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64/Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Dual Boot
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built Gaming PC
    CPU
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU@ 3.40GHZ
    Motherboard
    American Megatrands INC ASUS P8H67 2011 UEFI Motherboard
    Memory
    Kingston DDR3 8GB (4x2)
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI Gaming 4G Geforce GTX 970 4gb GDDR5 256 bit PCI-E 3.0 powered by NVIDIA MAXWELL architecture
    Sound Card
    Nividia High Definition Audio Card
    Monitor(s) Displays
    AOC V22 LED Monitor HDMI
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Disk 0:-Seagate 1TB (3 Partitions)
    Disk 1:- Seagate 500GB (4 Partitions)
    PSU
    Cooler Master G 600w 85% Efficiency PFC Active 80+ Bronze Cerified PSU
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    Cooler Master Elite 370
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    Logitech K120
    Mouse
    A4Tech Bloody 5 Multi-Core 4 Tl-8 Terminator Gaming Mouse
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    1 MBPS
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    Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
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    Windows 8 Windows Defender and Malwarebytes
Thankyou both I can breath again.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer aspire E1-571
    CPU
    i5 3230m
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    Onboard Intel HD4000
    Internet Speed
    Up to 50MB if you believe Usain Bolt & Dick Branson.
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