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Hi,
the first step, you should do, is to backup all important data to prevent any loss. The second consideration should be about partitioning : there are only four primary partitions available, and you already use all four. Win XP might need a bootable primary partition, if not started by a Linux bootloader. Linux does not care about being booted in an extended partition, which you need, if more than four volumes are intended.

I would try to convert sda3 and sda4 to "unallocated space" (deleting the two small partitions) and thus gaining two primary partitions for your purposes. I assume, sda1 is the swap partition of Linux Xandros.

Next steps are :
1. Shrink sda2 to 30 GB (from the rear end)
2. Create a new partition sda3 with 30 GB (just behind sda2; for Win XP)
3. Create a new partition sda4 with 20 GB (just behind sda3 for Ubuntu; perhaps you can use sda1 as its swap partition as well. Be aware, that your harddisk's heads then have to permanently make big jumps over the Xandros and Win XP partition; perhaps you modify the sequence therefore.)

Good luck
cmdr

It definitiely is not - as you can  see in the screen shot above, sda1 carries a file system (ext2), which is rather untypical for a swap partition.
However, since sda1 is really well-filled, it may make sense to shrink sda2 a bit "from the beginning" (so a chunk of unallocated space is created between sda1 and sda2), and then in turn grow sda1 by that amount of space. Please note that this operation can easily take a long time (several hours are not so uncommon!) to complete!

If you want to speed things up a bit, you can just create this partition as "unformetted" - so GParted won't waste time in creating a file system ion this partition.
The reason for this: If you want to install XP, you best inxstall it into an NTFS formatted partition - and experience shows that a NTFS file system created by GParted needs a chkdsk run under Windows rto be accepted as "clean". Unfortunately, the Windows setup will typically not be able to run chkdsk, so you best format this partition from inside the XP setup - which makes formatting it beforehand in GParted rather senseless.

As I wrote before: sda1 is definitely not a swap partition - so it might become necessary to create one. You would need onr partition for Ubuntu's root file system and one swap partition - and since you already have three primary partirtions on your drive (sda1...3), you can set up two additional partitioons only if you
1. First create an extended partition in the free space behind sda3 (this extended partition will be named "sda4" then);
2. create logical partitions inside the extended partition (naming starts from sda5 here) - the extended partition can be thought of as a container that can be divided into a (theoretically) unlimited number of logical partitions. However, in practice, Linux can't address more than 59 logical partitons on IDE drives (64 minor device numbers per IDE hard drive; one identifies the drive itself, four identity the MBR partition table entries - which leaves 59 for the logical partitions) - and no more than 11 (16 minor device numbers per drive) on SCSI disks (and since SATA drives are accessed using the SCSI layer inside the kernel, this eleven-partition-limitation may count for them, too).

That's the point: If youÄre unsure, you better frst find out. Maybe you find some information on the factory partitoning of the EEE on the internet, so you can figure out if they gold any useful/valuable data or if they are jzst junk.

In principle, yes.

I remind that any partitioning operation is potentially dangerous, so backup of important files is always recommanded. The simplest reason is the always existing probability for any hardware failure.

Hi!

GParted can't shrink your hard drive (some hard drive vendors offer tools that can sdo this - but why sould one shrink the usable space on a hard drive, throwing away drive capacity that was paid for?), it can only manipulate the partitions on it.
You can indeed shring your large partition from the right and thus create  free space behind this partition - but son can not install XP into this free space as long as the two small partitions on the very right are present. The reason for this is the limited number of partitions (4) the MBR partition table can hold - all partitions you see right now are primary partitions, defined by tghe MBR partition table, so this table is full!
So you must free up one MBR partition table entry before installing XP - and this can be done only by deleting a partition.

XP won't damage your Xandros installation during its own setup process - simply because it does not understand the partition ID and file system used by Xandros. However, it will very likely fill the MBR with iots own boot code, so you'll lose your current GRUB oer LILO boot loader; as a result, you'll have to repair your Linux boot loader (and configure it to also chainload XP) beforte you can use Xandros again.

Hi!

I donÄt know Yandros (I'm a Debian guy), but since almost all Linux distros seem to use GRUB 0.97 as their boot loader, and since the procedure of restoring the boot loader depends mainly - 9on the boot loader itself, I would expect that you can get along as described in the tutorial. Only thing is that the integrastion of the boot loader into your GUI menu structure and graphical configuration tools can differ (such tools tendo be somewhat distro-specific), so you might need to experiment a bit (or leave the GUI behind and do the job on the shell).
For the last step (restoring GRUB), any live system should work, provided it contains the files required to set up GRUB on a hard drive, so you could even use Ubuntu for re-installing GRUB (if you want to be very sure everything is right, you can re-install the GRUB once again after bootign Xandros; in this case, use you distro's package manager to fetch and re-install the GRUB package, so you have all the right files (belonging to your distro) in the right place, and then use the commands as specified in part 5 of the tutorial again to ensure these files are used to boot your system - instead of something Ubuntu might have left behind).

Yes, you'll have to delete one - otherwise you won't be able to create a partiton as an installation target for XP.
Oh, by the way: These partitions may look a bit "unused", but they're definitely not "unallocated"! A partition never consists of unallocated disk space: A chunk of disk space is either unallocated, or it is assigned to a partition.

Hi!

Could be that it complained about the already full partition table - but you'll only find out for sure when running the Windows setup again.
If it fails again, please write down (or take a photo of) the errotr message(s) and post them here - maybe we can find the source of your problems then.

Ok I deleted one of the small unused space at the end of the HD, which went through ok. I then made the large one smaller by half, which also worked perfectly. I am booted into Xandros now and everything is as it should be, which is great.

Now I need to install Windows XP on the spare partition BUT you said GParted only allows 4 partitions? I have 5:

This just happened, I didn't make the small one on the left .

Also, I'm thinking now that maybe I should make space for Ubuntu? Do you think it's wise - or should I install it (or buy it read made) on an SDHC card. I don't mind doing either, but you'll know better than me if it'll be a harder job.

Thanks.

Ok, I'm going to sort some partitions out, making the XP one smaller for Ubuntu. Actually, I could do that at a later date and just install XP for now, right? I'm going to do it now, so wish me luck .

EDIT: This is the error I get.

It's a Windows XP service pack 2 disk. It's the only copy I have and it's brand new, it was un opened. I didn't unplug anything .