Hi Peter, > Then I intend to repartition the disk to get rid of XP.
Could the current partition layout not be edited to what you want with GNU PartEd running from a live USB distro? You'd still want to back-up beforehand in case it all goes wrong but it would save having to install Kubuntu. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue