I'm surprised that the online school is requiring you to run a specific OS. With that said, if you really need Windows 7 for school and want to continue to use Linux as your main OS, I would recommend virtualizing it as that would be much simpler. Harold Wong Chief Technical Evangelist - Private Cloud | US Developer & Platform Evangelism - West Region Office: (425) 706-3501 | Blog: blogs.technet.com/haroldwong MCITP Server Administrator | MCITP Enterprise Administrator | MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007 / 2010 | VCP5 From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Adam McCullough Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:03 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: ot Online school Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time finding a university that isn't very MS-happy. Installing on an external hard drive is problematic at best. I'm pretty sure Windows protects against that. Licensing/piracy reasons. On 8 August 2012 10:56, Michael Havens > wrote: they want $305/credit hour. Is that the going rate for a University now a days? I think I'm going to go with a school that isn't so in bed with MS. UMN is not in bed with em. or else.... coulde I out it on an external HD? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stephen > wrote: the pert i left out is if you install windows to the drive that has Linux on it. even if you re-size the drives to make space it will overwrite grub, and you will need to re-install and reconfigure it. alternative install win7 in KVM or virtualbox. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Stephen > wrote: > well personally if you can just install to a new drive then you can > have it pristine and configure grub... > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Michael Havens > wrote: >> I need to put 7 back on my computer for school. How do you do it w/o >> blowing everything else away (ie on another partition). I also need to >> repartition. How big does it need to be for 7? >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss