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Help with partitioning and dual booting

I have a kinda complicated situation. I have two hard disks:

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Guest [Entry]

"Ubuntu installer should automatically setup Grub to dual-boot windows 7. If for some reason it does not, it's pretty easy to edit the grub menu.lst file to add an entry for windows.

Don't forget you need a swap partition too. As justin says, 20GB is too much for ubuntu system files. 8GB is plenty even with extra packages. NTFS should be fine to share files between Windows/Linux though."
Guest [Entry]

"20G is more than enough for ubuntu. Since you want to dual boot maybe something like

8G /
12G /home

and format the 70G partition as fat32 for sharing files between windows and linux?"