to create a new partition in win 7,you don't need any third party softwares(most are not even compatible with win 7).Just press the window button or go to start and type disk management.click the one with create and format hd partition.
A new window appear with vertical list of your partitions inside the box and horizontal list below it.right click the partition with large free size and select shrink volume.It will begin to calculate shrinkable size and ask you to enter the size for new volume.You need about 30 gb so give 31000 mb size and press shrink.minimum 16 gb is required.8gb is minimum requirement for ubuntu.
Now in right click unallocated space and click new simple volume.Give the required hd size for xp and click next.In the volume label type xp and click next.Your new partition is ready.
Just leave the remaining unpartition space for ubuntu.You can create new partition during ubuntu installation.
A new window appear with vertical list of your partitions inside the box and horizontal list below it.right click the partition with large free size and select shrink volume.It will begin to calculate shrinkable size and ask you to enter the size for new volume.You need about 30 gb so give 31000 mb size and press shrink.minimum 16 gb is required.8gb is minimum requirement for ubuntu.
Now in right click unallocated space and click new simple volume.Give the required hd size for xp and click next.In the volume label type xp and click next.Your new partition is ready.
Just leave the remaining unpartition space for ubuntu.You can create new partition during ubuntu installation.
This sure helped to manage my partition at least
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