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Full Discussion: XP and Linux (Ubuntu) on same disk, Can I install Ubuntu on not-yet partitioned portion of disk?
Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu XP and Linux (Ubuntu) on same disk, Can I install Ubuntu on not-yet partitioned portion of disk? Post 302364233 by mark54g on Thursday 22nd of October 2009 10:56:34 AM
Old 10-22-2009
As pludi mentioned, you said the unpartitioned space was 200MB not 200GB. If you were talking about the unused NTFS partition, that is not unpartitioned space, and should not be used, even if there are read/write drivers for NTFS available now.

There are always risks with modifying a partition, especially one that is not supported as well under Linux, as is the case with NTFS. If you have unused space, it would be best to use that.
 

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