thex707
June 16th, 2008, 02:09 AM
Ok hi! Well I am all new to this and hopefully I'll get good at this. Well anyways I obviously want to install ubuntu but I also would like to dual boot with XP. Well I go to the partition part of the installing but it only gives me three options. The guided - replacing xp altogether, the continuous one and manual. I go to manual and it gives me this:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 fat32 4GB
/dev/sda2 ntfs 33GB --- unknown free space left
Free Space 7MB
well the ntfs one is the one that has xp in it. I want to partition that one but I just don't know how. It doesn't give me how much free I have left either (in xp it says 16.3GB). Oh yeah the FAT32 one is the recovery part for XP. I do not want to format it or anything and I have backed up my pics and stuff. how can one be able to parition the NTFS so I can get room for ubuntu and convert the allocated space necesary for it? any help is greatly appreciated thanks!!!
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 fat32 4GB
/dev/sda2 ntfs 33GB --- unknown free space left
Free Space 7MB
well the ntfs one is the one that has xp in it. I want to partition that one but I just don't know how. It doesn't give me how much free I have left either (in xp it says 16.3GB). Oh yeah the FAT32 one is the recovery part for XP. I do not want to format it or anything and I have backed up my pics and stuff. how can one be able to parition the NTFS so I can get room for ubuntu and convert the allocated space necesary for it? any help is greatly appreciated thanks!!!