A big problem with dual booting now is that windows restore disks provided from the manufacturer actually deploy an image to the drive rather then perform an install. Therefore forcing users to shrink the partition. Which can of course make dual booting more of a pain for the novice user.
The biggest problem I dealt with when I previously dual booted was despite the windows installation being brand new it could be badly fragmented. If you re size the disk over fragmented files this more then likely would cause the windows installation to no longer boot. Performing a defrag (preferably in safe mode) prior installing Linux would prevented the problem. I was then able to shrink the windows partition and install Linux on the remaining. I only make a swap on laptops that will suspend/hibernate and on desktops that will be dealing with large media files when sufficient RAM is not present. -Chris On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am going to partition a 40 gig drive on a presario laptop. >> I want to make the first 10 gigs ntfs for windows os >> and the second 10 gigs ext3 for ubuntu os >> and the 3rd 20 gig partition for data. > > In addition to system and data partitions, > I always make a swap partition. > /Randall > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
