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[Tom <question77443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77443 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77443

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Fixing the mbr to point at the Windows boot-loader might not be removing
all of Ubuntu but until we fix the grub boot-loader it seems best to
keep the mbr pointing at NtLdr so that at least 1 OS works on your
machine :)

Boot up with the Ubuntu Cd in the cd/dvd-drive and get to the LiveCd
session.  In a terminal console type

free -m

and paste the result into here.  This should tell us how much ram your
machine has.  During the install we need to set a "linux-swap" partition
to be more than ram-size but not more than twice ram-size.  After that
it would be good to have a 5 or 10Gb partition for the root of the linux
file-system / and then the remainder of the drive-space you can give to
ubuntu can be the /home partition to keep all your data & settings
safely on it's own space.

Note that linux can read data stored on Windows partitions and can even
use the same formats for documents, pictures, music, movies and so on -
so at first it makes sense to keep Ubuntu's space quite small and keep
almost all your data on the Windows side of things so that both OS's can
usefully use it all.  I would give Ubuntu about 25Gb in total which is
plenty more than it needs.

But we can worry about those details after finding the results of "free
-m", and after you've decided how much space to give Ubuntu on your
750Gb drive - if you want to avoid installing onto the 750Gb drive then
we could find another way to do this but it might involve a bit more
time.

Glad to hear you got power back :) i was worried that i hadn't given a
whole plan and with all the various choices possible in linux that maybe
finding a good end-result might take some time to explore.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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