On 6/5/2008 11:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm gonna take a risk and try to turn my kid's and wife's Windows 2000 laptop
into a dual boot Ubuntu/W2K laptop.
Is there open source software to shrink the Win2K partition that is 100% safe?
Can it toast the Windows installation?
I plan to install Ubuntu as dual boot with XP on my wife's laptop.
Here's what I plan to do, maybe overkill but hopefully safe. Comments
appreciated.
1. I already have a new, larger 2.5" hard disk.
2. Install blank 3.5" hard disk on a desktop machine and install XP there.
3. Install both 2.5" disks in the desktop machine using 2.5" to 3.5" IDE
adapters.
4. Boot to Linux live CD and set up partitions on new 2.5" disk. Copy
image of factory restore partition from old to new. (I'm not sure if the
restore partition would work after doing this, but I figure it can't
hurt). Set up boot sector on new disk.
5. Boot to windows XP on 3.5" disk and copy all files in windows
partition from old 2.5" disk to new 2.5" disk.
6. Put new disk in laptop and make sure windows boots.
7. Install Ubuntu on laptop. If anything goes wrong original disk
remains untouched as a backup.
Another option is to only install Ubuntu on the new disk. Install
Virtualbox (or other) and create a Virtualbox image from the entire
windows partition on the old 2.5" disk. Boot to this in Virtualbox when
windows is needed. My wife's laptop is maxed out at 512MB of ram so this
might not work so well.
Karl
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