i searched for 2 hours now and couldn`t find anything that would really help me. my problem is: my hard drive has 2 partitions (C,D). right now i am using windows xp.it is installed on the C drive. D drive has my personal stuff(music pictures, movies). i want to format C drive and install ubuntu. i don`t want to install it alongside xp. i don`t want to format D drive. just leave it untouched. how can i do this? sorry for being such a noob.
You can ask over here as well: http://ubuntuforums.org/ but you'll have to open an account. Are you intending to replace Win XP with Ubuntu? Is it because you don't have space on the hard disk? Ubuntu is capable of installing alongside Win XP and offering you a choice of OS at each start up.
if you are pretty new to linux i recomend you to got for linux mint instead of ubuntu but at end its your own choice if you like unity system that much it for dual boot but same way you can formate anypartition and get your fav linux distro installed http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=50649 best and easy way run on try cd and then run from ubuntu gparted tool formate drive you want to install it on that drive your C would be sda1 its the old way but work with all linux distro's once you learn it its pretty helpful for you
second way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKeFgxKYorY on alocate drive space chose something else here you see your drive sda 1 edit sda 1 and select size = XX gb file system = ext4 mount point = / (root) ok and install ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3rd way most easy way chose ubuntu try mode use gparted tool and formate your drive c (sda1) apply ok click on install chose something else like at video of 2.03 min you see its installing on free space just check that space and install just like video
