<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On Thursday 05 August 2010 12:44 PM, sowmya bobba wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTinKRppd-UE8bj4mC7y-TpvFiK2PTD5Lur16U2z_@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">windows 7 is already installed in my laptop but my hard disk has only one partition....i read somewhere that inorder to dual boot u need two partitions so i was wondering if dual boot of windows 7 and ubuntu is possible in only one partition??? On 8/5/10, Sriranga(77yrsold) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:withblessings@gmail.com"><withblessings@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> </blockquote> Ok got you point ... First of all you need to shrink the partition in windows 7 ( I think it is C: ) to make some space to install ubuntu in it please have a look at the following[1]   ( how to shrink partition in windows 7 ) [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.windows7news.com/2009/10/23/how-to-shrink-a-volume-in-windows-7/">http://www.windows7news.com/2009/10/23/how-to-shrink-a-volume-in-windows-7/</a> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Unix)"> <meta name="AUTHOR" content="livewire "> <meta name="CREATED" content="20100413;16400600"> <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="livewire "> <meta name="CHANGED" content="20100413;16433900"> <style type="text/css">  </style> Jatin Khatri Web <a href="http://www.khatrijatin.co.nr/">www.khatrijatin.co.nr</a> <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin">www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin</a> Phone (+91) 98250 20393 Save Paper, Save Environment.** (Plant at least one tree in your life and nurture it !!!) </div> </body> </html>