installing Ubuntu

[Nils Kassube]

Steve Grace wrote:
> Your Windows files will stay if you're careful during the installation.
> It's best to have a backup, though.
>
> Assuming a "typical" installation with just a C:\ partition, one way of
> doing this is to defragment your Windows partition and then reduce the
> partition's size (there's a Windows utility to do that). You can then
> install Ubuntu in the empty space. You could also do what I did and add
> a second hard disk for Ubuntu.

Can you tell me more about that Windows utility to resize partitions? Is 
it included with Windows XP? Recently I have installed Kubuntu on 2 PCs 
of a friend. Both were defragmented, but I tried to resize the partition 
with gparted. On both PCs resizing failed and Windows didn't boot any 
longer. We decided to forget Windows and use only Kubuntu. Anyway, maybe 
next time someone really wants to keep Windows and not reinstall it. 
Therefore it would be nice to know about that utility. I couldn't find it 
on my XP machine.


Nils