how best to dual boot

[cabz]

i have a new dell mini1012 with win7 home premium, i want to
dual boot with ubuntu 12,04 as well, which would be the better way to go, wubi or disk install? i recently had an issue trying wubi in win 7 that might have been the pc more than a wubi issue though.

[wilee-nilee]

i have a new dell mini1012 with win7 home premium, i want to
dual boot with ubuntu 12,04 as well, which would be the better way to go, wubi or disk install? i recently had an issue trying wubi in win 7 that might have been the pc more than a wubi issue though.

In the words of elmer fudd "vwery, vwery carefully".

Boot the ubuntu cd and give us a screen shot of gparted looking at the HD.

Not the windows partitioner it will not show some hidden partitions.

[cortman]

If you want to just try Ubuntu and probably delete it later, Wubi.
If you intend to really use it for day-to-day computing, do a partitioned dual boot.