<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Have you considered Wubi? Running a VM under Virtualbox or VMWare server? Or even booting off the install CD, saving settings on the HD?</div><div><br></div><div>If your system can boot off USB, you should be fine.</div><div><br></div><div>WUBI will install inside your existing WinXP partition.</div><div><br></div><div>Virtualbox will allow you to run Ubuntu while also running WinXP.</div><div><br></div><div>The install CD will allow you access files on your HD, as will WUBI. Virtualbox will not.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH,<br><br>Ken</div><div><br>On May 2, 2009, at 6:02 PM, <<a href="mailto:dtgusa@gmail.com">dtgusa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">Greetings and good day to you all:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">I’m seriously considering switching from XP SP3 to Ubuntu 9.04; dual boot option initially.  I have a single 82 gig hard drive using NTFS.  If I go with an external USB hard drive instead of adding an internal hard drive will it work to install Ubuntu on to?   Scared to repartition the existing hard drive due to a bad experience years ago and use of NTFS verses FAT 32. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">Thank you in advance for any assistance,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">DTG<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <br><br><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><strong><br><br>E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.1.441)<br>Database version: 6.12300<br><a href="http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/"><a href="http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor-antivirus/">http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor-antivirus/</a></a><br></strong></font> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>-- </span><br><span>Ubuntu-us-nj mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-nj@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-nj@lists.ubuntu.com</a></span><br><span>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nj"><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nj">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nj</a></a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>