Please explain, can I keep my windows and have Ubuntu also?

of course you can have both in the same hard disk but not in the same partition.
you can install ubuntu like any regular application in windows using Wubi
you can boot up from your CD and try ubuntu without installing it. this way you can use ubuntu without changing anything in your hard disk
you can install it in any different partitions other then windows partition. this way you will have both.

when your machine boot up you can choice which OS you want.

If you install Ubuntu from a install CD (and I think the same will be the case if using http://wubi-installer.org/) the installer will ask you if it should use the whole hard disk deleting everything that has been there before ubuntu was installed - or if it should allow you to split the hard disk into 2 or more "partitions" instead - and if it should just resize the partitions that have been there before or format them (which would in other words mean: delete their contents.). Choose to resize your windows partition to make place for Ubuntu - but backup your windows partition first: In the last 7 years I have never seen that this process has gone wrong for anybody, but - 7 years ago on my computer it did fail.

The Idea why Ubuntu cannot be installed on a NTFS file system besides Windows is:
Installing Ubuntu on a NTFS file system would make you miss too many of the features that make Ubuntu fun:
 - Much of it's speed - which is partially due to the extremely fast file system it uses,
 - The Soft-and hard links to files Ubuntu uses internally a lot
 - and the ultra-stable file system that still doesn't even complain if you rename or delete files whilst they are still open.

There have been linux distributions you were able to install on the same partition as windows but - sooner or later everybody either switched to the real thing or uninstalled it.

Correction: Wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/) allows you to install Ubuntu on a Windows partition.
Interresting...

Thank you.

--- On Mon, 9/6/10, Hsn <email address hidden> wrote:

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Subject: Re: [Question #124388]: Please explain, can I keep my windows and have Ubuntu also?
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Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 6:08 PM

Your question #124388 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/124388

    Status: Open => Answered

Hsn proposed the following answer:
of course you can have both in the same hard disk but not in the same partition.
you can install ubuntu like any regular application in windows using Wubi
you can boot up from your CD and try ubuntu without installing it. this way you can use ubuntu without changing anything in your hard disk
you can install it in any different partitions other then windows partition. this way you will have both.

when your machine boot up you can choice which OS you want.

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Hi, I received three responses, and will download onto a CD as soon as I can. That way I can run it until I am sure I want to keep it. Will a DVDR work in place of a CD?
Robert

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, Robert L. Eddins <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Robert L. Eddins <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #124388]: Please explain, can I keep my windows and have Ubuntu also?
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 6:48 AM

Your question #124388 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/124388

    Status: Answered => Open

You are still having a problem:
Thank you.

--- On Mon, 9/6/10, Hsn <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Hsn <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #124388]: Please explain, can I keep my windows and have Ubuntu also?
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 6:08 PM

Your question #124388 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/124388

    Status: Open => Answered

Hsn proposed the following answer:
of course you can have both in the same hard disk but not in the same partition.
you can install ubuntu like any regular application in windows using Wubi
you can boot up from your CD and try ubuntu without installing it. this way you can use ubuntu without changing anything in your hard disk
you can install it in any different partitions other then windows partition. this way you will have both.

when your machine boot up you can choice which OS you want.

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Yes,DVD wil work.Maybe you want to read http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed_first.htm