First install: partitioning

[ac]

It is also good practice to first do scandisk in windows, restart. 
Also to defragment at least once (I do it twice). This will ensure 
your windows disk and filesystem is in a good condition and success 
will be easy to achieve!
ac

Twist O'Connor wrote:
> ok BEFORE you even install ubuntu, partiotion you disk with windows... cuase
> windows has a partitioner....
> i did this with vista but try things becuase it might be the same steps....
> start menu>right click computer>manage>diskmanagement
> then right click the main volume and shrink volume
> then slect the size you want ubuntu to be
> then when you install ubuntu it should have the slection to use any free
> space... select that and whalla you got exactly what you want!
> 
> 
> On 9/28/07, Dante Pastro <dante.pastro at telus.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I have an 80 GB HD, am running Win XP, I have 30% of the HD occupied, and
>> the HD is not partitioned. It is prudent to first partition the HD so that
>> Win XP runs on one and Ubuntu runs on the other or does Ubuntu recognize my
>> present files and avoids writing over them?
>> Thank you
>> Regards,
>> Dante
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