Installation after Windows

[O. Sinclair]

On 05/02/2013 22:39, Volkan Gezer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to test Kubuntu installation with a Windows installed
> VirtualBox, but I noticed that it did not see the Windows XP
> installation and even did not get any confirmation to format the
> drive! Since it was a virtualbox I completed the installation to see
> if the old windows files would exist, but they did not!
>
> My second try was with my laptop and I am using Windows 7 on my
> another laptop. I chose install from ubiquity and went to the disk
> configuration page... Now there was a slider to adjust the disk usage
> by Kubuntu, but it did not show the name of Windows 7 and even I had
> another operating system.
>
> If the disk is completely formatted by Windows, wouldnt ubiquity show
> any options to install side by side? I think this is very hard for new
> users to understand and very easy to lose their data.
>
If I understand you correct you want to install Kubuntu on a WindowsPC 
using Virtualbox? In that case the virtualbox installation will be 
totally unaware of the environment it is installed in and no existing 
windows will show up during installation.