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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:22:29 GMT, Nanette Newman <nannew@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>WinXP Pro SP2.
>
>Hi all.
>I've decided to set up a dual boot PC, WinXP Pro and Ubuntu. My
>current setup is one IDE 80Gb hard drive with no partitions other than
>the XP one. I wish to partition the drive, 40Gb a piece and install
>Ubuntu on the new 40 Gb partition with XP on the other but  I'm having
>problems creating the partition. In XP Disk Manager I can see my XP
>partition which takes up the whole drive. There is no "unallocated"
>space for me to right click and create the new partition which all
>FAQs have said I must have. I remember having the choice to create
>partitions when I originally installed XP but chose not to.
>I did notice an option to change the drive from "Basic" (its current
>setting) to "Dynamic". Would that make any difference? 
>Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.
>TIA.
How much of your XP partition is used?
Have you run the Disk Cleanup Wizard (BE VERY careful what you let it clean
up. Temp files and IE Cache are safe bets). Uninstall unused programs. Defrag
again.
Ubuntu has a disk manager that will allow you to adjust partition sizes of XP
(assuming free space exists) downward to free space for Ubuntu.  I highly
recommend performing this *Only* after a full IMAGE backup has been made AND
the have the computer powered by a UPS if your lights have ever flickered in
recent months (It only takes a flicker to garbage a drive in transition)..
I have the same 40G XP/40G Ubuntu split installed on my Toshiba Notebook.
I set it for a default boot (after timeout) for my preferred OS. This allows
for a boot time selection. You can also set the (re)boot selection to "Last
used O/S" and still switch at boot time.

Leave your XP partition set to BASIC, Ubuntu can read and write to your XP
partition if you mount it after install.