A Clean Install of a Windows 7 & Ubuntu Dual-Boot System

While writing my last post which was about hibernation, I noticed that Ubuntu cannot mount the Windows partition (or rather, can only mount it as read-only) if Windows was hibernated. This lead me to consider creating a partitioning scheme where Windows is separated from the rest of the files on my hard drive. Rather than playing with the partitions of the hard drive, I decided to do a clean install. While at it, I also purchased an optical drive bay caddy and a 64 gb solid state drive to contain the operating systems. Here's a step-by-step list of what I have done:

Enabling Hibernation in Ubuntu

Hibernation is a useful feature of modern computers/operating systems, which allows users to turn off the computer for a while and later resume their session from that point, eliminating the need to save all work before shutting down. It is similar to the "Sleep" or "Suspend" option, but the computer won't keep on drawing power when hibernated, because all the information in the memory is written to the disk and therefore there is no need to feed power to the memory. I use this option to power down my system unless I perform some operation that specifically requires shut down instead of hibernation.

Dealing With Internet Connectivity Issues in Ubuntu

I finally went ahead and installed Ubuntu 13.04. I had to google a few things from my phone during the installation, but all in all everything went pretty smooth. The only problem worth mentioning was that I lost my internet connection at some point (though I was still connected to the wireless network), but that was solved pretty easily.