Partition Question

[OmegaMB]

My computer has one hard drive that has two partitions on it. The C: drive contains my Windows installation, while the D: is a Windows XP restore drive. If I were to install Ubuntu, would I be able to install Ubuntu to the C: partition and keep the D; partition untouched, so that if I ever had to reinstall Windows, I would be able to?

[sandysandy]

broadly u may consider this

de-fragment ur windows drive.

backup important data.

with gparted live CD <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/> compress ur c:/ drive and in the free space make one partition (ext3) for Ubuntu and one more for SWAP.

here is gparted tutorial

http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted

here is link for dual booting windows & ubuntu

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed _first.htm

regards

[castor_troy]

Free up space on your C: drive. Atleast 10gb for a Ubuntu. Boot with the Ubuntu live CD. Choose install option. You can resize your C: drive easily in a graphical and allocate as much space as you want to Ubuntu. Your D: drive will be untouched.

Cheers !

[SkonesMickLoud]

There's also Wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/).

[tarps87]

You would be able to install to just the c: partition, but having never tried I don't know if the backup util would work as the C: part of the hard drive would be a different format after installing ubuntu. It may be possible to create a set of backup cds.

Edit: I forgot about the Wubi, this would probalbly be a good place to start as you can still use you windows os

[sandysandy]

tarps87 has a good point. with ubuntu 8.04 onwards the cd has everything on it to install within windows.

no hassles of partitioning etc.

regards

[tarps87]

Lucky SkonesMickLoud remembered. Its how I introduced my brother to ubuntu