For those Windows users who have discovered what Linux has to
offer, but for one reason or another are not ready to completely
abandon Windows, dual-booting between the two operating systems
is one method of keeping a foot in both worlds. And to help
those users, this article presents a step-by-step guide on how
to configure dual-booting between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 on
a computer with one hard drive. The same steps may be used to
dual-boot both between both systems on a computer with two hard
drives. In attempting to dual-boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu
11.04, you will either install Windows anew, then install Ubuntu
11.04 alongside it, or install Ubuntu 11.04 alongside an
existing installation of Windows. This tutorial uses as example,
a case of installing Ubuntu 11.04 on an existing installation of
Windows 7. As shown in the image below, the existing
installation of Windows 7 used for this tutorial has three
primary partitions. And because of the limitations of the MBR
partitioning scheme, only one