ubuntu partitioner wont work

for "an unknown reason" i cannot partition my hard drive... anyone got any clue what could be this "unknown reason"?

i already partitioned it once before but since then i did a full recovery to how it was when i got it.

my specs are in my sig and im trying to use the alternate 64bit ubuntu 7.04 CD

 

Read this:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

Then ask again.

 

lol, ok well here is what i did then...

first off i went through the setup as normal, everything ran fine (i selected keyboard layout, where im from, etc.)

then i got to the partitioner and i selected 'manual' and then i picked the 160 GB partition that i have vista on, after that i selected the size, and then instead of 160GB i changed it to 70GB

once i did that it gave me an error, something like "this operation cannot be performed because of an unknown error"

 

Did you defrag your Windows partition before trying to resize it? Sometimes you need to defrag it before resizing. The problem is that partition resizers sometimes refuse to resize a partition if you have data at the end of it.

 

I suggest Paritioning using Gparted boot-up disk to resize and partition, then try Ubuntu disk.

And why are you trying to use the alternate 64bit ubuntu 7.04 CD? Thats could be the problem. Try using the 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD. But then again, I'm not even sure if Ubuntu's 64bit would work on your notebook being that it's intel.

Anybody? ........

 

no it doesnt work, i tried it first and because it didnt work i downloaded the alternate cd.

and another note, the vista disk management tool wont shrink it either, it says there isnt enough room on the disk to do it... wonder what thats about?

 

Whats your Partition layout?

 

i have vistaOS (99.68GB) and empty space (49.36)

i have been trying to shrink the vistaOS partition by small amounts until i reach the point that it cant be shrunk anymore, because i will never use that much for vista, ubuntu i might though.

 

Yea, Seems like a lot of Vista users encountered the same problem and some can't find any solution.

I've never tried to shrink a Vista Partition so I really can't help much.

I recommend just delete the Partitions and creating new ones. (Sucks, but might be your only bet).

Here is something I seen on another forum, People have tried everything under the sun.

 

o wow, that bites... there is no way im guna want to go through restoring my system again... ive already done that 3 times (turns out i didnt really need to, found out that it was corrupt RAM causing the problem too late and i had already done it.)

ill give gparted a shot right away though.

EDIT: wow, gparted is a command line?! :| that is too scary, if anyone knows how to use that command line, could you say what i would put in to get my vista partition down to 70GB and leave the rest unallocated?

 

gparted is GUI, not command line. Which means, unless you can boot into a graphical Linux environment, you won't be able to use it. If you can't boot into Ubuntu, try Knoppix perhaps? Or any of the many other LiveCDs that are available.

I'm assuming that "gparted" is just a GUI frontend for "parted" but, I've never used parted before so I can't really help you with how to use it (a quick look tells me it's a bit messy and not very user friendly).

 

the gparted LiveCD boots gparted in a UI.

 

that means command line, right? because thats all im getting

 

nono parted is commandline Gparted isnt but the ubuntu installer uses Gparted for the manual partitioning so i dont think it will help

 

o, i musta got parted then... anyone know how to shrink my partition to 70GB?