Now, you should be getting to the end of your

Windows install

. Before the

install process

finishes your computer will restart at least one more time. You can keep an eye on the progress bar at the bottom to see how your

Windows 7 installation

is progressing.

In this episode, we show you what to expect with your

Windows install

. The

install process

takes roughly half an hour and takes little more than a bit of patience on your part. Keep in mind that your computer will restart at least once when

installing Windows 7

.

If you want to

install Windows

to your hard drive and want to do a clean install, then you'll either need to have a fresh hard drive or

create a new partition

. In this episode, we'll be showing you both

how to start your Windows install

and

how to partition your hard drive

.

If you like

using Ubuntu

but want to have the option of using your other operating system, you can always

create a dual boot system

. This will involve

partitioning your hard drive

and you should probably back up your data, but once the process is complete, you'll be able to

boot into Ubuntu

or your other OS whenever you want.

Partitioning your hard drive may sound like an exercise in geekery, but it's actually very simple and there are some really practical reasons you might want to partition a drive. First and foremost, you can create multiple virtual hard drives to store and organize your files or even to hold multiple operating systems on the same computer. For example, you could run Windows 7 and Ubuntu side by side on the same physical machine. Best of all, it's a

free partiton creator and manager

.

Hard drives are widely available at sizes in excess of 1 terabyte. That's 1,000 gigabytes. That's one huge drive! With EASEUS Partition Manager, it's easy to partition your big hard drive into two or more virtual drives that look and act like separate physical hard drives on your computer. We'll even show you how to set up a dual-boot PC!

A

disk partition

allows you to take one big hard drive and

divide it into multiple virtual hard drives

. You could, for example,

dual-boot

Windows and Ubuntu by installing one operating system on each partition. You could also have your operating system on one partition and keep your all your data on another partition.

When you're sizing a hard drive you may think that one drive needs a certain amount of space and another drive needs less. Then, when you get working with them you may find out you were wrong. Not to worry. Just use EASEUS Partition Manager to resize your drives with a few clicks.

Hard drives are available in sizes up to and exceeding 1 terabyte. That's over 1,000 gigabytes. That's a big drive! If you'd rather break it down into more workable sections you'll want to partition the hard drive. If you have a hard drive that someone else partitioned you may want to repartition it. Either way you can use EASEUS Partition Manager to manipulate your hard drive the way you want.

The hard drive. It's a key part to any system because it holds all of the information. The programs, the data, the music, the graphics. Hard drives tend come as a huge, single drive. If you wish, however, you can allocate the space into different virtual drives by creating partitions. You can then separate your data, your programs, and so on. EASEUS Partition Manager will let you resize partitions, copy them, delete them and more.

Hard drives are widely available at sizes in excess of 1 terabyte. That's 1,000 gigabytes. That's one huge drive! With EASEUS Partition Manager, it's easy to partition your big hard drive into two or more virtual drives that look and act like separate physical hard drives on your computer. We'll even show you how to set up a dual-boot PC!

If you're going to

install Windows to a PC

then the best way to do so is by doing a

clean install

. That means installing it to an empty hard drive or to a fresh partition. In this series we'll be showing you

how to install Windows 7

to a clear partition and, along the way,

how to partition a hard drive

.