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  • Hey guys. I'm currently running Windows XP on my Dell Dimension 4600. I do not want to replace Ubuntu with XP ( I dont want to wipe out xp)..At first I just wanted to run Ubuntu as a Live CD. Now I'm interested in installing Ubuntu it on my computer, but I also want to keep XP on it too. In other words, can I have both Ubuntu and Windows XP on the partition at the same time? If I want to delete Ubuntu off the partition in the future, how would I do so? Thanks!

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    Yes, you can have both Ubuntu and the other thing on different partitions on the same drive. When you install Ubuntu, you can shrink the current partition and install an Ubuntu partition on the empty space. If in the future you want to delete Ubuntu, you can use the Windows Disk Management Tool or whatever the hell they call it now to delete the Ubuntu partition, but that thing can only delete or create partitions if I recall correctly. So if you want to re-size that partition you shrunk for Ubuntu, you have to use a third party program to re-size it back up to use the whole drive. (Assuming only 1 hard drive on your computer). I think GParted LiveCD is the best option for that. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

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What you are talking about is Dual Booting your computer. You cannot have two OSs on the same partition at the same time. You will need to go into Disk Management, and tell your hard drive to shrink. This will give you unallcated space on your HDD. You can install the Second OS on that space. I am not sure if you have to partition it first or if it will be done when you boot it from the CD. Hope this helps

EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition allows you to resize your partitions with ease and it's free from the link below. This is an easy program to use. You will want to have it partition the hard into two equal halves. Using the Ubuntu installer will use all the available space on the Windows partition and that is not what you want to happen, because if you make the Windows partition too small it doesn't work very well. Then when you boot Ubuntu up you cal tell it to use hdb1, the second partition. It will set up dual boot. and load grub to hda1 partition.

If you configure the installer correctly, it will install Ubuntu in a separate partition (actually several).

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