<!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"> norman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1196347725.5683.215.camel@localhost" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Okay ill stop rambling... my suggestion is to use the Ubuntu live CD and partition your hard-drive accordingly, and format all the partitions. but don't install Ubuntu. I would also suggest making a 200MB /boot partition at the beginning of the HDD. Then install Windows, check that it works, then install Ubuntu. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">That sounds good but how do I arrange for the 200MB /boot partition? </pre> </blockquote> Gparted is as good a tool as any for partitioning. Booting into the live CD there should be a menu entry labelled 'Partition Editor' under System > Administration. With this you should be able to delete any partitions on the disk and create new ones as you see fit. I would also recommend having a partition for /boot, it keeps your Grub installation separate no matter which OS you reinstall. You only need to create the partitions, assigning them appropriate mount points (/, /boot etc) is not necessary as this is handled by the Ubuntu installer. To answer your MBR question, yes the Ubuntu installer will overwrite a Windows bootloader if present on the MBR. Tom </body> </html>