1 Topic by satx

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Topic: Partitioning WIN XP PRO 225GB HDD for UBUNTU Use

Hello!

I am running UBUNTU from CD. Discovered GPARTED on menu. Would like to creat a new partition and swap partition on my HD so I can install UBUNTU and run system in dual boot mode.

The question I have is: Can I use GPARTED running off UBUNTU CD to repartition my HDD? It sees the C: as /dev/sda1 and the D: as /dev/sda2.

HDD is currently partitioned as:
C: NTFS, 225 GB, 35 GB used, 190 GB free
D: FAT32, 7.84 GB, 7.54 used, 304 MB free
E: DVD
G:-J: Removable hard drives.

Would like to create an F: drive with 80GB, and a 1GB swap space. PC has 4GB of RAM, dual Intel  2.4 GHz processors.

Thank you.

2 Reply by ThunderM

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Re: Partitioning WIN XP PRO 225GB HDD for UBUNTU Use

Yeah. It will work. U only have to shrink the C partition and create the new ones

3 Reply by LarryT

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Re: Partitioning WIN XP PRO 225GB HDD for UBUNTU Use

Be VERY careful that ubuntu runs a VERY old version of GParted (0.2.5) afaik.

Larry
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Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

4 Reply by class413

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Re: Partitioning WIN XP PRO 225GB HDD for UBUNTU Use

... so it is better to work with the last version which handles well ntfs partitions. The live cd worked well for me!

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***