Why not have the best of both worlds Rhys and have Ubuntu and Windows running as a dual boot setup on the one partitioned drive? I have that running on one of my PC's at the minute. It was easy to set up as the Ubuntu disk allows you to allocate how much space you want to give to each OS and then it does all the partitioning and setup for you! One great advantage of such a setup is that you can still access the files on the windows partition from Ubuntu so if Windows cocks up on you you should still be able to recover your files from Ubuntu! Worth installing Ubuntu for that reason only if for none other I reckon! Cool or what!

BigWill