Sunday, October 2, 2016

partitioning - How to dual boot with Windows XP and Partition?

Windows XP pro S3 is already installed on my laptop HP EliteBook 6930p. I am trying to partition and dual boot. This is all new to me as this is my first time installing Ubuntu. Partition is the most confusing part, it shows up 160GB with NTFS file format and a blank /sdv(or something). I can't resize the 160GB, had to select the blank option and click Add. When i do this the NTFS becomes free space?? I dont want Windows XP to be overwritten.


I have seen videos and read documentation online but they are all reference to older Ubuntu version. Nothing simple for this noob :)


Objective
-Dual boot with Windows Xp an Ubuntu 10.10
-partition the drive, with swap, ext4, fat32(transfer files between Ubuntu and Windows XP), and NTFS(keep Windows XP)

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