how install win w/o wiping the disk

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ashoka K <ashok.vinu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ric,
>
> Even i want to install both Win Vista and Ubuntu on my laptop freshly due to
> response being too slow.
> I understand your method. But if possible please provide a detailed steps to
> do the same :)
>
> Can you copy all the files you want to keep to your ubuntu partition,
> hopefully still running, then reformat the
> Win partition to ext3 or 4. Then mount the old Win partition to /opt. copy
> all the files there. Then a fresh install of Ubuntu to the
> Ubuntu partition ONLY. Remount /opt and you have your safe storage. That's
> how I survive with fresh installs.
>
>
> Regards
> Ashoka.  K
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/12/2012 12:08 AM, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/11/2012 09:25 PM, Nick Bikkal wrote:
>>>
>>> /snip/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While we're at it if I may ask on this Ubuntu forum how does one
>>>>>> uninstall Windows XP?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> Why not just format the partition?
>>>>>
>>>>> --doug
>>>>>
>>>>> Reality is I screwed up bad&  now have a powerful desk top that can
>>>>> do little that I want. I lost much of my work I had on both an old
>>>>> Ubuntu&  a WXP. Feel resigned to all this bad luck. Sigh. If possible
>>>>> I'd like to salvage some. I thought I had it all backed up on an
>>>>> external disk but it also proved negative. About 10 years of work&
>>>>> pictures on it.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>
>>> Now you know how I felt when I let The Geek Squad work on my computer
>>> and tell me that the disk
>>> was ng, AND IT WAS THE WRONG DISK which I then threw away!  I trust you
>>> know who the Geek Squad
>>> works for.
>>
>>
>> Can you copy all the files you want to keep to your ubuntu partition,
>> hopefully still running, then reformat the Win partition to ext3 or 4.
>> Then mount the old Win partition to /opt. copy all the files there. Then a
>> fresh install of Ubuntu to the Ubuntu partition ONLY. Remount /opt and you
>> have your safe storage. That's how I survive with fresh installs. Ric
>>
>>
>> --
>> My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
>> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
>> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
>> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
>> http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --

Tried a 64 bit version, same GPT message and in addition "The
partition is an EFI system partition (ESP)."