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Recently my brother somehow deleted some pretty important files on my Windows XP partition (no way he can do it on Ubuntu. I hope ) So I want to try ...
  1. 03-17-2010 #1
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    Issue with setting partitions on Ubuntu

    Recently my brother somehow deleted some pretty important files on my Windows XP partition (no way he can do it on Ubuntu. I hope ) So I want to try and install Ubuntu after trying out the LiveCD and liking it. I have a 40GB hard drive (old system) and I was wondering how I can take off 10GB from the Windows partition to use for Ubuntu.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fiebre View Post
    I have a 40GB hard drive (old system) and I was wondering how I can take off 10GB from the Windows partition to use for Ubuntu.
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    That's an easy task using the Parted Magic LiveCD. Just use it to shrink the Windows partition and then add the new space to your Ubuntu partition.
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    GParted is available as Disk Utility package in Ubuntu LiveCD only and I would suggest you to use that for Partitioning.
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    Fiebre, you can find lots of documentation for gparted here:

    GParted -- Documentation

    ...with more to be found here:

    Using GParted
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