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groogrux
April 13th, 2011, 09:30 PM
Hello, I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 (32 bit) and I used Windows to shrink the C drive, to allow space for Ubuntu. I used a LiveCD to install Ubuntu with the "alongside other operating system" option. I did not move the slider, leaving it around 75% Windows, and 25% Ubuntu. After the install, the partitions were more like 60% Ubuntu, and 40% Windows. I corrected it with GParted, but I was wondering why this happened. Could anyone let me know? Thanks.

Dutch70
April 13th, 2011, 11:06 PM
It's not advisable to use the "alongside other OS" function with version 10.10 at all. If it didn't really mess windows up, consider yourself very lucky.

Hedgehog1
April 14th, 2011, 05:33 AM
This happened because you shrank windows manually (a good thing) and did not create the Ubuntu partitions manually and the select this option:

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4196/02specifypartitons.png

And then assign those partitions you created:

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6017/08allocdrivespace6.png



The Hedge

:KS

groogrux
April 14th, 2011, 06:53 AM
That makes sense. Thanks for the quick responses! I was a little worried about specifying the partitions manually in Ubuntu, because I was really new to it at the time. Now that I can make more sense of / and swap, I'll probably do next time.