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dual boot w\o partition

Asked by edestacio

I have WIN XP Home installed on my laptop. I want to try to install Ubuntu on the same system but I don't have a partition on my drive. Is it possible to install Ubuntu the easier way?

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SageMassa (jedd.bissegger) said : 		#1

The installer for ubuntu will allow you to resize your windows partition and create a new linux partition.
Select manual when you get to the partition screen in the install and then resize the windows partition to a comfortable size and create new partitions for linux and swap

Please let me know if this answers your question

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niyam bhushan (niyam) said : 		#2

umm you may want to defragment your windows partition first, using the windows 'defrag' utility available under windows. i forget where it is, somewhere in the windows control panel... haven't used windows for years. so hopefully someone else could point this out.
:-)
niyam

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Fredagar (fredagar) said : 		#3

Defrag in windows is easy, just open My Computer, right click the drive and select tools. Defragment is the last option.

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