2 HDD in it, each 250gb, one is windows, one is linux, it was ubuntu 7.04, but I upgraded to 8.10 via updates manager...
warning, do not update with the updates manager, it messes things up, do a fresh install!
I did a fresh install on my laptop of 8.10 and its perfect, (for the most part, what doesnt work is not because of the OS). So... when I installed 8.04 it was easy, it simply asked me if I wanted to partition, if yes, how much should belong to ubuntu, but when I installed 8.10 on my laptop, it wasnt like that, it wanted to override the ENTIRE HDD, and to partition, I would need to install windows after.
well I want to do a fresh install on my desktop asap, but how do I do that without messing up my windows partition?

Thanks