Mark, On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 19:49 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > (Obviously make backups of anything valuable first, as you would for any > > major invasive exercise like installing an OS.) > > > > I don't have any data on the laptop other than "backups / local cached > copies", if you see what I mean. > > The question is "where did I put the Dell system recovery CD", of course > - re-installing XP-MCE on the beast would be the annoying part of the > exercise :-)
So you have Ubuntu on this machine and want to add Windows? A couple of points spring to mind. It's usually best to install Windows first and then Ubuntu so that the grub boot loader gets set up correctly. You can do this manually if you install the other way around, but I don't have a reference to hand about this. Most recovery CDs I've seen tend to wipe the whole disk and restore the disk to the way it was when set up by the manufacturer. You could go down this route and then install Ubuntu and, as Colin says, it will do the resizing etc. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
