First install: partitioning

[Derek Broughton]

ac wrote:

> 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!

But you'd be doing that on a brand new Windows machine, surely (because
nobody would actually _use_ Windows for a while before installing Ubuntu),
so you shouldn't really need to scan or defrag :-)
-- 
derek