installing Ubuntu

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 16:15 -0700, Steve Grace wrote:
> 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.
> 
Sorry about breaking into the thread, but I lost the start of this.
According to "Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, 2nd Ed.", if you can't
get to this in the menu, you can use any command prompt by typing:
'diskmgmt.msc' without the quotes, of course.

Hope this helps, maybe even just a little bit?


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