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Does anyone know if Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu version 7.04 be trusted to install Ubuntu onto a master hard drive with XP installed? According to computing magazine Linux gurus, you just click intall on the free live CD and your hdd is auto resized, partitioned, and Feisty Fawn installed.

I did this and it's really no problem at all.

A couple of caveats though:
1. Whe nthe partitioner starts up in the setup be sure you don't wipe your whole disk clean.
2. Ubuntu will write the grub bootloader to your system. This will make the blue "Thinkvantage" button no longer function. You will however be able to access the recovery partition from the grub menu.

I've been dual booting XP and Ubuntu about a year now. And I frequent the Ubuntu forum.
The installer works most of the time. The most common reason the installer screws up windows is a fragmented windows file system. Defrag the windows install then defrag again. and it doesn't hurt to run scandisk too. I have started using this defrag program http://kessels.com/JkDefrag/index.html.

And of course the standard backup anything you can't afford to loose applies.

Thank you for the replies

--Bruised

foofightrs777 wrote:I did this and it's really no problem at all.

A couple of caveats though:
1. Whe nthe partitioner starts up in the setup be sure you don't wipe your whole disk clean.
2. Ubuntu will write the grub bootloader to your system. This will make the blue "Thinkvantage" button no longer function. You will however be able to access the recovery partition from the grub menu.

2. I don't have this problem. You have to push the blue button at the bios splash. Not when grub come up.