Not sure where you are in the process. Anyway, In install, select Manual Partitioning. I absolutely never do any of the other choices, not even for testing. Highlight your hda4 Edit the partition. (If any partition changes are needed, do those with CD Live Gparted, not! in install.) In particular, to be safe, do not delete or new or create with the install built in partitioner. I will, for testing. It needs to be ext3 format Its mount point needs to be / which is the name of the root partition. In Ubuntu, that's the only partition for files you need. It needs to be selected for format. You need a swap partition. It will be automatically formatted. That's O.K. Even if you have multiple Linux's on one system, triple or quad booted, only one swap is needed. It should be at least as large as your memory, up to maybe twice as large. After the partitioning menu, you will get another menu showing all the partitions. As I remember, the / partition will have a slightly darker square on format. I don't care for the ambiguous marking on this menu myself. Grey on grey hardly evokes confidence. Select "Next" You should get a menu which will say that it is going to format hda4, and the swap. It will stop there and wait for you to review what the actions are. No formatting has been done yet. If you don't like what the menu says, select back which will take you back to partitioning, or cancel install even. If it looks O.K., select next and it will tell you it's formatting hda4 and the swap. Install should then proceed. Now all this is from memory having done it a few dozen times. The menus change slightly from one Ubuntu to the next, but that's what I remember. Yes this whole business is frustrating, and yes they are trying to invent some ways around it, but it is technically complex. Some of us (me) will prefer to do the "dirty work" ourselves. For wider use of Linux, a method like Wubi may be easier. I haven't seen any postings that people have had trouble with their XP systems after Wubi. Sometimes Wubi doesn't seem to install because Wubi format doesn't complete; I wonder if those users had defragged XP first. http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/take-ubuntu-for-a-non+invasive-test-drive-with-wubi-258936.php Cheers, Jerry
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