Will Windows be deleted when i download?

Hi hhuttger,

What you are trying to download ? Is it Ubuntu ?

If so, then no need to worry. When you download Ubuntu it will be stored on your harddisk as iso image which you can write to any storage device and start installing Ubuntu in a separate partition along with Windows.

-Murali-

Hello

No worries mate

Check out the download site http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Next,Choose a location near you and download the ISO. Then follow the directions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto (Burn your cd at a lower speed say at 4x and check your MD5 sums)

Bit info about MD5 sums:
With an md5 sum you can compare the contents of files. If your .iso file is defect (this can happen when you download it), it's md5sum would be different than that one on the Ubuntu server.

To calculate the md5sum of your image file, you can use a command line tool like http://www.md5summer.org/download.html for Windows (on Ubuntu it's the 'md5sum' command). Then compare the calculated value with the ones in this list http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/MD5SUMS.
So if you have the ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso, the calculated value should be 8895167a794c5d8dedcc312fc62f1f1f

If the file has a different md5sum than expected, I would recommend to download that iso again.

and then

it's possible to have two operating systems on one computer. many people have a dualboot (Windows and Ubuntu).

More info:
Official Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

Hey

Windows will only be deleted if you choose to install Ubuntu to the hard drive partition windows currently resides in.