On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, William Douglas wrote:

> Andy,
>
> In order to properly install dual boot with XP and Ubuntu you need to
> split the hard drive using a partition utility and then format the
> empty partition as FAT32 to install ubuntu to it. Ubuntu cannot set up
> on a NTFS drive which is XP's default file structure.
And, along that line, there are various partitioning tools that supposedly
will resize an NTFS partition but refuse when you try to do it.  I found
one free downloadable and bootable image that will really do it.
It's called Parted Magic - google for it.

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