Installing Mandrake 10

#1 cymru83

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 12:48 AM

Hi guys

I currently have a PC running Windows XP Home. I have the hard drive split into 2 (120GB - 80GB C drive and 40GB D). I have windows installed on C and documents (mp3s and uni work) on D.

I want to move the documents onto C, and then install Mandrake 10 onto D. How easy is this?

I don't want to do any damage to the Windows installation, and when finished I want to be able to easily boot either installation.

Thanks

Jon

#2 Maillion

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 01:10 AM

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Is any part of the Windows stuff on D: ? Are there any programs installed on D: ? If there is nothing there but data that you created, then you should have no problem. Be sure to backup as much as you can before starting. 8)

#3 idud

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 09:30 AM

There should be no problem even if you repartiting the drive C (using the free area of drive C to install linux). So it would be much easier, and won't give you any problem (I hope) if you install linux on any other partition and not touching the win partition.