On 07/09/11 14:43, Richard Parsons wrote:
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:05:28PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
The partition is probably tagged and formatted with NTFS - delete it from within Windows to be sure it is the right (empty!) one. When you start the Ubuntu installer again it should see the hole.
Thank you for that tip. I'm hoping to keep the windows partition though. My idea is to reduce the windows partition to say 80GB, to free up approximately 400GB for the Ubuntu installation. If I delete the second partition won't the windows installation be lost?
Depends what's on the partition. If you delete a partition without backing it up, whatever is on it will be lost.
I think I'm going to need it! I'm wondering whether what I want to do is even possible. Perhaps I need to be looking at a tool like Ghost?
Ghost, or one of the other backup tools that have been mentioned.