help in installation of windows 7

[himanee]

hello,
i have intel pentium dual core T 4300 2.10 ghz processor on a dell laptop. i had windows vista by default when i bought the comp. then i installed ubuntu 9.10 and made a multiboot system. now i wish to remove vista and get windows7. how do i do it? shall i face any problem due to ubuntu 9.10? or this is not at all concerned to ubuntu and i can happily do everything remaining in vista?

please help me i am bit scared to do it myself from online windows' help.

thanks n regards,
himanee.

[wookieshaver]

Your best bet would be to run a clean install (wipe and format of the entire hard drive) of Windows 7 as the boot loader for Windows 7 is slightly different and will mess up your Ubuntu install anyway. Once Windows 7 is installed, you can shrink the hard disk volume using disk management in windows 7, this will make a certain amount of the free space on the drive unallocated. The shrink of the volume is necessary to allow for Ubuntu to format and use. Then reinstall Ubuntu on the unallocated space you freed up.

Hope that helps!