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I recently installed Ubuntu and love everything about it except for one thing: I can't use Adobe Illustrator. When I installed Ubuntu, I reformatted the hard drive. Now I want to partition the hard drive and install Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu. How can I do this?

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This is the official document by Ubuntu team on Dual Booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu .
You will find all the required step there .
Just install Windows before you install Ubuntu or you will end up repairing your grub
Installing an OS on external hdd will make it really slow , a better option is that you use Virtualbox for the os that you are bound to use less

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I found this bit.ly/gm01a1 about reformating a external hardrive as ntfs. Do you know if I can just install windows on that instead of partitioning my internal hardrive? – Spencer Cooley Mar 23 '11 at 5:13
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I would suggest installing Virtualbox on whatever OS you prefer (Windows or Ubuntu), and then running the other OS within Virtualbox. This option does not involve partitioning your hard drive.

Edit: Yes, this means you will be switch between the two different machines quickly, just as if the virtual machine was an application (in a sense, it is, but lets not go there just yet :) )

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