installing Ubuntu

[Steve Grace]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 18:59 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Steve Grace wrote:
> > 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.

It's called Computer Management. On my computer, I get to it from Start
> Control Panels > Administrative Tools > Computer Management (I also
have the Administrative Tools menu directly on my Start menu).

In the Computer Management application, select the Storage section, then
Disk Management.