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A hard disk on a PC needs to be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning partitioned] before any operating system can be run on it. This means that the OS must lay claim to an area of hard disk space before it can be used. On most laptops, windows has created partitions taking up the entire disk. | A hard disk on a PC needs to be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning partitioned] before any operating system can be run on it. This means that the OS must lay claim to an area of hard disk space before it can be used. On most laptops, windows has created partitions taking up the entire disk. | ||
To work around this, the Ubuntu installer includes a tool to resize the existing Windows partitions to make space for it's own one. | To work around this, the Ubuntu installer includes a tool to resize the existing Windows partitions to make space for it's own one. When asked about partitioning, select the "Manual" option. To use this, you need some unused space inside the Windows partition. There is also an element of risk with the resize operation (if the partition contains unforeseen errors, or if there's a power cut during install, data may be lost), so '''back up your Windows documents and files before letting the installer do this'''. | ||
Additionally, if windows has created four or more partitions (as is the case with some Acer laptops, and possibly others), you may need to delete one to make it possible for Ubuntu to create it's own one. This limitation is due to the way PCs were designed way back in the 80s. If you want to delete a Windows partition, just make sure it's not the one containing the C: drive (you can usually tell by the size of each one), and copy files from it to another windows partition before proceeding. | |||
On the off chance that you don't want Windows (or any of the documents or files created on windows) on your PC at all anymore, you can just delete all the existing partitions and let Ubuntu do it's own thing. | |||
==But, I already have Linux installed== | ==But, I already have Linux installed== | ||