But prior to installing Ubuntu, I first had to shrink my Windows (ntfs) partition. Here is what I did, only using free software:
- Removed unnecessary data to from Windows (I removed about 14 Gb of junk!)
- Made a backup of my Windows partition. I first tried ghost but our corporate version is old and I did not succeed in detecting my Samba shares on my home server (CentOS). So I dowloaded and installed Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Great software. Run flawlessly.
- I shrunk my Windows partition. To do this, I used EASUS Partition Manager. Again, this worked flawlessly.
That's it. Now I run Ubuntu natively. It's so fast, now!
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What makes you want to keep Windows on a separate partition? Why not just use VMWare and run windows inside Ubuntu instead of the other way around?
@phil That's a very good question. I sometimes need to use Windows to test our software on various combinations of Java/Eclipse versions (Java 1.4 to 1.6, Eclipse 3.2 to 3.4). I could do that in VMWare, but if I run a couple of Eclipses in parallel, I will need a lot of memory. (I agree that it's a very soft argument, I'm not totally convinced myself... ;-)
Maybe in a couple of weeks/months, I will convert my Windows partition too and use VMWare exclusively to run my Windows apps. Time will tell.
Hmm, did you mean "gratis software" instead of "free software"?
@rotty Yes, free as in "gratis", non-paying. Why are you asking?
I continue to run Windows outside of a virtual because I need it to drive some musical equiptment. That said, I had good luck with SystemRescueCD and Acronis True Image Home for doing a setup like yours.
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