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DAVEM

DAVEM

DAVEM

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Hi All,

Newbie question here, my HDD has two partitions

Now at the moment I have XP on one and use the other for storage, I've backed up all my important files onto this drive.

The drives are: C: and X:

Can I (without deleting any data on X:) split C: in two and install Ubuntu on one partition and XP on the other?

Cheers

David
 
...or Partition Manager. Not as good as Partition Magic but it's free.

Make sure you defrag the Windows partition before you split it into two.
 
cheers,

Had a play with partition magic, just decided to ditch windows entirely,

It's been a nightmare this week, Ubuntu & OS X for me from now on!

Hopefully Ubuntu is as good as everyone says it is!

whats a quick way (fdisk esq) of formatting my drive quickly using the Ubuntu startup disk?

Cheers

Davem
 
During the installation there's a part where it asks you if you want to format the drive or keep the existing partitions. Just use that - I'm pretty sure it just calls fdisk.
 
GarethDW said:
During the installation there's a part where it asks you if you want to format the drive or keep the existing partitions. Just use that - I'm pretty sure it just calls fdisk.
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Formatting is generally a process that works on a partition on a drive not on a drive itself. All you need to do is free up enough space on the drive for ubuntu to create its partitions. This is about 5 gb or so min. Ubuntu will create the partitions it needs and format them on its own so u dont need to worry about that too much.
 
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