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    Insprion 1420 - Installing Ubuntu or Xp

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by discovery, Dec 27, 2008.

  1. discovery

    discovery Notebook Guru

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    Hello there

    I have an Insipiron 1420. I see that there are 4 partitions in my 250 gb hd.
    One is 94 mg (EISA), recovery D: 10 gb, Vista 220 gb and MD around 2.5 gb.

    These are the tasks that I want to do:

    1) create a back up of my current Vista install in dvd in case everything goes wrong

    2) delete the recovery partition

    3) can I remove the EISA partition? How does thi partition affects my laptop?

    4) shrink the Vista partionin ( OS) and create 3 partitions : 1 for vista, 1 for ubuntu/ XP (probably if XP runs ok I will wipe vista and put Xp on it) and create a partion to store my data

    I am planning to use Acronis Disk director for these operations. I have heard that Vista uses its own NTFS so there might be risks involved in partition it.

    I want a |---Vista--| Ubuntu/XP | Data partition | set up.

    Can someone help me with advices in this process?

    thnx in advance
     
    discovery, Dec 27, 2008
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    You can use gparted to resize your partitions. Then once you install Ubuntu it will setup the bootloader (GRUB) so that you can choose which OS to boot into.
     
    atbnet, Dec 27, 2008
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