GParted Partition Manager
by benl
So, given that Ubuntu 6.06 has been out and about for a little while now – and that I like it muchly – I decided to install it on my main machine and dual boot with Windows XP. The only issue being that the existing hard disk was unpartitioned and I wasn't willing to shell out for PartitionMagic or another product of that ilk.
After having a little browse around I found the most excellent GParted LiveCD. This is a LiveCD version of the GParted partition management application weighing in at a measly 30mb download and is of course completely free. Creating partitions over existing disks has a fairly high PPS (potential pant staining) factor, one false move and you can pretty much hose the whole box… Thankfully my pants (and I) survived the incident and Ubuntu 6.06 is happily occupying a new partition on my main box at home.
I'm thinking about hosing the Windows partition soon and reclaiming the space for the Ubuntu partition. Especially now I've got VMWare Player up and running in Ubuntu…
You can do that with the ubuntu installation disk.
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It works pretty good. You can resize existing partitions (the windows one) and then create new ones.
That’s how I did it and I have both windows and Ubuntu working fine. I also have a Grub menu in the boot sequence so I can choose which OS I want (it even has a fancy background image
I have installated ubuntu and now i cant get my windows back /: somebody please help me
i know what u have done u have deleted windows!
i did it on my old laptop had vista install windows 7 beta for trial
sorry ask someone to install it again
so you maybe should check the BIOS and the starting order. or maybe you enabled automatic booting of ubuntu.
@Jonatan: try rebooting 3 times