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[bbqroast]

I have a 250GB drive on my laptop, right now its got two partions:
C:-50GB and D:200GB
The C: drive has windows on it, I was wondering if I could trim my D: drive to 160GB and then install Ubuntu on a new 40GB partion.

My new partions would be like this:

C: - WINDOWS - 50GB, D: - DATA - 160GB, F: (or something) - UBUNTU - 40GB
I'd just follow the tutorials online to partion D: and install Ubuntu on the new partion (F:) then I'm assuming I could access D: from both OS's, Could I???

Sorry about that being "code" Codecall was making my diagrams smileys...

[Alexander]

You can actually just download the Ubuntu iso and place it on a USB or disk, and its installation setup will have a partitioning manager. If your 160 GBs are at the end of your partition space, then it should take nearly no time at all (no moving) to trim down 40 gigabytes and create an ext3 partition for Ubuntu.

You could as well download Gparted live distribution and place that on a USB or CD, it is a more generalized partitioning manager and may be more simple than using Ubuntu's for later work, I always keep a copy handy.

Maybe try it out and see what you can do.

[bbqroast]

Yeah if I put a disk into my laptop it goes RRRRRHRHRHRHHRHRHRHRHRHHR and then covers the disk in white lines!

SO wait will I be able to see my D:/ (documents) drive from both OS's

[Alexander]

Ubuntu should have a by default the NTFS3G package of which can mount NTFS partitions, so you could view the D:/ drive likely as /media/windows/ depending on how it is mounted.

[bbqroast]

The D: drive has no OS or anything just a drive containing more rubbish than a rubbish truck (and a ton of homebrewed videos!)

[Alexander]

It is still an NTFS partition, it can be mounted regardless of its contents as long as it is a valid filesystem.