Elnystrom

Ok, heres the deal. I am running a Dell Dimension 4550 with windows XP pro. Im trying to install UBUNTU Linux as a dual boot. Im hoping there is a way to install it without deleting everything on the windows partition. When i get to the partition manager it shows 3 partitions. The second of which is the windows partition which takes up 119.9 of my 120 GB Hard Drive. IM LOST....help!!!! Im paranoid about losing everything on my disk but I want to run linux on the same box. I have Ubuntu running on an old computer, but its useless because it has no ethernet port and i'm broke, as most teenagers are.

no no no no no.....i didn't lose everything, everything is still fine, The software wouldn't resize my partition. I did defrag and all that other business. I need to find something pirated or c r a c k e d......any ideas on where i can get one...( i would pay, but being 15.....IM BROKE!)

i did all of that but the resize failed so im still stuck in a rut. If anyone knows where i can get a "free" (pirated, cracked) edition of partition magic i would love to know what it is and where to get it. I am still very much broke. I dont want to buy a new hard drive and even if i did, i couldn't

I have a really good feeling about the system rescue ISO thats linked there, thank you. I will see if it works! -Erik

therein lies the other problem, i could care less about my documents as i could retrieve them from my teachers to copy and all that jazz. I really care about my 7. Something GB Music collecction. Isn't there a way to make windows take up less space without losing everything? Resizing the partition? there has to be something that doesn't require me to spend more than i have (which is about 5 cents or maybe a few bucks) to fix this, I know for a fact i am not using all of the 119.9 that it says windows is using.