John Torrance wrote:
I have previously configured a dual boot system with Grub using XP (FAT32) and linux with no problems. However, on my main computer, I tried XP (NTFS) and Linux with disasterous results - lost my whole windows disk. I am keen to try and load Ubuntu concurrenly on a separate disk on my main XP computer but do not want to loose my bills etc. Has anyone successfully dual loaded Ubuntu on an XP machine where the XP is NTFS? Alternatively, can one convert NTFS to FAT32?
Ubuntu can resize NTFS partitions so you can put a Linux partition in the newly created space, and read them, but it cannot (safely) give you write access to an NTFS disk. The easiest thing to do is keep data you need on a Samba server on another machine or another FAT32 partition created for the purpose. Craig