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Dual OS, windows xp, ubuntu, single hard drive.

Asked by James D. Milne

I currently have windows xp. I have one hard drive with two partitions, C: & D:, and wish to run windows on C:, Ubuntu on D:. Is this possible or will the installer completely erase everything since they are on the same physical Hard drive?

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

The installer allows you to choose, so do not choose "use whole drive". Instead, select
"Something else" (in 11.04) to manually set things up. Grub will install to the Master Boot Record, replacing the Windows boot loader, but you will still have grub menu choices to boot windows. What you should think about is how much swap you need. The old rule was twice the ram, but not more than 2G. Then in the manual part, select new partition table, and break D into two parts, one for root (/), and the other for swap.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Another solution is to boot under Windows, then removing D: partition.
At boot of Ubuntu CD, choose "Install in free space" and let Ubuntu installer doing the thing automatically.

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