• Registered: 2010-09-14
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Partitioning Hard Drive for Mint 9 on system that already has XP

Hi, I have a computer with XP on it, and I want to install Mint 9 also.  I have the Mint 9 Live CD and boot from it, but when I go to install Mint, it shows one partition:  /dev/sda1 ntfs   20546 MB      This partition is currently running XP.

I can't change the size of this partition, and if I click New Partition Table it says all current partitions will be removed. 

Is it possible to add a partition to install Mint 9 on, without overwriting the XP os.

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  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Partitioning Hard Drive for Mint 9 on system that already has XP

http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph … mp;t=54326

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  • Registered: 2010-09-14
  • Posts: 2

Re: Partitioning Hard Drive for Mint 9 on system that already has XP

Am I correct then, in assuming that there is no way to install an operating system on a second partition without first making free space available in Windows.  The XP OS is currently not bootable, so I thought I'd install Linux while waiting for XP OS CDS.

  • Registered: 2010-08-20
  • Posts: 108

Re: Partitioning Hard Drive for Mint 9 on system that already has XP

Use something like GParted as a bootable CD.

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