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Nanette Newman 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"

The Ubuntu installer - since it has no files open on the partition to
reduce - may be able to do the job.
From a running XP, you cannot reduce the size of "the" open/used partition.
So leave the work to the Ubuntu installer, but defragment your XP partition
first, from within XP.

> 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?

Do NOT change to dynamic if you want to have other operating systems.