fightthecool Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 im sorry if this does not go in this section but i am new to these forums...ok so i have windows xp installed and i wanted to also install ubuntu on my hd but windows refuses to let me partition any space under its control. i currently have almost 5 gigs of free space (at least thats what windows is telling me) and i need to make partitions big enough for ubuntu. is there a way of forcing a partition without loosing data? thanks for any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 Welcome to the Windows Forum!I have never used Windows' own disk tools for partitioning, but 3rd-party tools that are far more versatile (and easier to use). What you need to do in order to get a second partitiondefragment your current partitionresize your partition to get free space for another partitioncreate a new partition in the free spaceNow I don't know what kind of partition you need for ubuntu; Windows needs to run in a primary partition. It is possible that ubuntu installation will allow you to create and format your 2nd partition; I don't know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 Windows is very cautious about letting any of its working environment go elsewhere so you will need an independent partition manager to be able to add or change any partitions on a drive with Windows installed.Acronis Disk director is one such disk management programs see: click here for details.Another partition manager is Partition Magic from click here.You say you have 5GB free space. This doesn't seem much for what you want to achieve. Can you give some more details on the hard disk space you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshomaru Samma Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 Partition magic is great but the Ubuntu installer CD comes with Gparted which is somewhat similar to Partition magic. It will partition your disc and can probably resize your Winows partition.What you should isBACKUP YOUR DATA defrag Windows several times and run the Ubuntu CDremeber that Linux uses different names for partitions (no C or D ,but hda1 ,hda2...)It's best if you post the same question in the Ubuntu forum with information about the total size of your disk and what file system are you using (NTFS or FAT32)also read this Good Luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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