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rajnikhil
March 8th, 2009, 05:36 PM
Hi there,
I currently use Win XP pro but I want to shift to Dual booting with Vista and Ubuntu. I've got two 160gb HDD with a total of 5 partitions, I want to know if I have to back-up all the data before I do this Dual-Booting thing, as I've heard that installing Ubuntu will format whole of HDD and also, is it mandatory to create a min 2gb of swap partition (even if I choose the first partitioning option i.e. Guided—Resize SCSI1 (0,0,0)
Partition; Guided—Use Entire Disk) and can I later merge this 2gb with other partition? Any and every help will be useful and my sincere thanks in advance.

chubble10
March 8th, 2009, 06:13 PM
Try using Wubi to install it inside Vista/Xp

zvacet
March 8th, 2009, 06:14 PM
If you want to dual-boot,it will be easier to install Vista first.Here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot) you have guide for Vista/Ubutu dual boot.