Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

[Ilya Vishnyakov]

Sounds reasonable, thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Nils Kassube
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:16 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:
> I have a Dell laptop with Win Xp and 1 partition on it. This laptop
has
> very valuable information for me, personally. I was wondering if will
> be able to install Ubuntu as second OS on my laptop, without
> reformatting the hard drive. I need to keep the data on it intact.

There is no warranty that it will work without problems. While it worked

for several people to resize XP partitions (me included), I had problems

doing that on 2 machines. IMHO it is always risky to change the 
partitioning of a hard disk. Therefore I would suggest to make a backup 
of your valuable data to CD / DVD and check that you can restore the
data 
from the backup media. Furthermore, make sure you have your Windows
CD/DVD 
at hand in case you need to restore the Windows system.


Nils

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