Ubuntu Gaming/Vista Partition

[Joel Frost]

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From: "Jonathan Hirschman" <jonathan at hirschman.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:19 PM
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Gaming/Vista Partition

> Joel wrote:
>> Partition:-
>>
>> Ok, considering the amount of money I wasted on Vista, does anybody
>> know how I could partition my hard drive and instill Ubuntu on this
>> partition. I have searched around a bit and I found that you can
>> partition with a built in tool with Vista. But sadly it will only let
>> me partition 71 MB even though I have roughly 39 GB free space on my
>> hard drive.
>>
>>
> See this:
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
> and this...
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
>
> I've used the gparted bootable ISO, and it works very, very well. That
> being said, there is always a chance of losing your data during a
> partition resizing - it is not 100% foolproof. Make sure that you have
> your data backed up, and that you can re-install your OS and other
> programs if need be. Since you're coming from the Windows world, you may
> want to look into using Ghost or similar to do a full imaging of your
> hard drive, so that you can restore it if need be. Note that Linux
> offers tools to do the same thing, but I wouldn't recommend them to a
> newbie.
>
> Alternately, you could look into buying a copy of Partition Magic or
> Acronis Partition Manager, which do the same thing, and may be less
> troublesome with Vista.
>
> Good luck, and be careful.
>
> jh
>
>
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Thanks for the quick answer. Ill try now.