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this is the scenario: i have windows7 installed on a single partition 500 gb hd. i want to install ubuntu as dual boot. (i have done this before but not ...
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dual-booting win7 and ubuntu
this is the scenario: i have windows7 installed on a single partition 500 gb hd. i want to install ubuntu as dual boot. (i have done this before but not with win7.) can i go into disk management and reduce the win 7 volume by say 50 gb. format it fat32 and install ubuntu. and still have dual-boot? thanks in advance. i plan on using either ubuntu 9.04 or 9.10
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You're going with 450 gb for Windows and 50 gb for Ubuntu??
Well if the bulk of your files will be on Windows, you may want to have that space always mounted when you boot into Linux. So here's a helpful page with those instructions:
wikihow(dot)com/Access-Windows-Files-in-Ubuntu
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