Re: First install: partitioning

It is also good practice to first do scandisk in windows, restart. Also to defragment at least once (I do it twice). This will ensure your windows disk and filesystem is in a good condition and success will be easy to achieve!
ac

Twist O'Connor wrote:
> ok BEFORE you even install ubuntu, partiotion you disk with windows... cuase
> windows has a partitioner....
> i did this with vista but try things becuase it might be the same steps....
> start menu>right click computer>manage>diskmanagement
> then right click the main volume and shrink volume
> then slect the size you want ubuntu to be
> then when you install ubuntu it should have the slection to use any free
> space... select that and whalla you got exactly what you want!
>
>
> On 9/28/07, Dante Pastro <dante.pastro@telus.net> wrote:

>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I have an 80 GB HD, am running Win XP, I have 30% of the HD occupied, and
>> the HD is not partitioned. It is prudent to first partition the HD so that
>> Win XP runs on one and Ubuntu runs on the other or does Ubuntu recognize my
>> present files and avoids writing over them?
>> Thank you
>> Regards,
>> Dante
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