Well , Having all this spare time to post while my foot heals I played with my old 40 gig hardrive and installed a dual boot O/S with Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04. Wiped the hardrive again with killdisk as Somehow my Mepis Install wasn't letting me boot into Windows because I did everything wrong. I tried inserting my Mepis disk to repair and run gparted but all I did was corrupt my cd trying this. So ran KILLDISK. Now this is how I went about doing a dual boot install. I loaded Windows first and when going into formatting hardrive I divided the hardrive into 2 partitions. 1 was 18 gig. the other 19 gig. I installed Windows onto the 18 gig partition. then I booted Ubuntu and it gives you an option during install to install on largest patition of hardrive which I clicked on and did. Installed Ubuntu and after that shut down computer. After restarting past IBM Screen Post I got a screen with Ubuntu and Windows XP and using the arrow keys I could boot into the operating system of my choice. Ubuntu has a dual booting software program in it that automatically installed when I did my installation in the way I have previously stated. Hopefully this will show the correct way to do a dual O/S install for some newbies as I had to learn this by plenty of trial and error,

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When I did this install the general idea was to divide the hardrive in half. My 18 gig and 19 gig specs are just generalities. Actually it came out to 18.^^^ and 19.^^^ because a 40 gig is not truly a 40 gig but 39.^^^ something. It just made the install go more easily by dividing the difference by 1 gig when it came to installing Ubuntu as There is an option for installing on the larger partition.