In most cases, you don't need anything special. Just choose grub as your bootloader when you install Linux, and let it replace your Windows bootloader.

You can use it to choose between multiple versions of Linux, DOS, Windows, etc.

On my Windows machine, I use Paragon Boot Manager to boot either Windows or DOS. (The latter for disk copy/maintainence software.) On my Linux machine, I just use Grub. (For Linux/DOS).

Of course, you'll have to make sure you have enough unused space on your hard drive, and make sure to install Linux into the unused space. You may need to use some volume shrink software first if you have unused space but it's allocated for a Windows volumes already.

Thanks jtara,
I'll probably give it a shot soon. Yes, I have lots of space left, so that shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for your help! God bless!

Yeah, on mandriva for a couple of years now the dual boot is a standard part of the install. It recognizes it during the install, lets you resize the windows partition to leave the rest for linux, lets you pick which one boots by default, and so on - all during the regular install. I'm sure other distro's do the same thing.

Cool, thanks!

Make sure you read up on it first. You've got to compress your windows install first, i think it's done by a disk defrag.