[ubuntu-uk] Dual booting (Was: Re: Bug Day)

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alan c wrote:
> James Milligan wrote:
> 
>> Also, can someone advise me on a Windows program that can partition
>> my drive more effectively than the built-in one with Windows? I've
>> got a ~300 GB HDD, 293 is registering (that's pretty much normal),
>> I've got ~65 GB free, but can only create a new partition of 2GB
>> (shrinking the main partition by 2GB, therefore expanding unused
>> space).
> 
> I would be very suspicious about this. It may be that somehow there 
> are non movable items near the end of the drive, I do not know much 
> about that stuff. I did find one (only) drive which could not be
> shrunk for some weird reason. Wubi would be ok for this case anyway,
> but it is not very robust with power failures (or I guess forced
> power downs).


Not sure what's going on with this drive, but isn't it generally a good 
idea to defrag a WinXP drive before trying to install a dual boot? 
Might be a good idea to do that, James.

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