First of all, my apologies to whoever else replied after my last post, as I can't respond to it because for some reason it's not showing up. I can see Xpod's post, but I know [from seeing it in Mailwasher] that someone else replied. Something about partitions, I think. I can't check MailWasher's recycle bin for the details of the post as it [MailWasher] went a bit funny & decided not to log the last few hours of emails, & I didn't copy the new reply to topic email as I didn't think I had a reason to.
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Originally Posted by xpod
If you dont want to be fiddling around then the safest way(imo) would probably be to just leave whatever space you want to allocate to Ubuntu unallocated and just point the installer to the "largest continuous free space" during partitioning.
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Ok, thanks. I don't have to use all of the free space available in that free space chunk do I? I seem to remember the last 1 I tried [Mandrake I think] let me say how much I wanted to use. The reason I ask is that the largest chunk of continuous free space I've got is 102GB [it's a 500GB drive, well technically 466, but that's dishonest HDD companies for you
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Originally Posted by xpod
If your resizing current Windows partitions remember and defrag a good couple of times
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Partition Manager handles all that, it's pretty good in general for doing partitiony things.
