I have got a new laptop with Vista installed. I want to dual boot with kubuntu. My hard disk is one primary partition of 80GB. I dont want to reinstall Vista by reformatting. Can anyone help me as to how I can resize and install Kubuntu without causing any problems to my existing Vista installation.
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Re: Dual Boot Vista and Kubuntu
I know M$ has changed a lot with the installation of Window$ with the release of Vista. However, I would suspect that the over all reinstallation should be similar to past fresh installs of the OS. If that is truely what you want to do, a fresh install, then during the process of installing Vista, it should prompt you about the partition. In the past you were able to delete the existing and then create a new one. It is at this atage you can specify a smaller primary partition for Vista. That is if you received the machine with an 80 GB HD and it was completely formated as the primary partition, then when reinstalling you can tell it to use only 40 GB. That would leave another 40GB that you can use with Kubuntu. Again, I know some things have cahnged with the release of Vista, and I my self have not looked at that OS yet (don't realy plan to either, if I can help it
) Please let me know if this is of any help.
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Re: Dual Boot Vista and Kubuntu
Hi,
I've heard that there's a tool to resize your partitions within vista but never used this os, it should be in manage computer (like in xp) > manage disk and then you should come to something like partition magic.Comment
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Re: Dual Boot Vista and Kubuntu
I think you're right. I seem to remember reading something about that. I would look at that route first. It'll be a lot easier.Comment
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