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    Partition problem

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by AdamW, Jan 25, 2008.

  1. AdamW

    AdamW Notebook Geek

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    Alright I have a Sager NP2090 that I got this summer. It came with Vista Home Premium but I soon switched it to XP pro. Now I want to dual boot xp and ubuntu. I am trying to make a separate partition with GParted but it's not working I've tried 3 different versions and each time when I run it and all the text is going down the screen it will stop at

    IO SCHEDULE REGISTER

    or something like that. Any ideas would be helpful. thanks
     
    AdamW, Jan 25, 2008
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  2. blaaze

    blaaze Notebook Consultant

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    Have you tried using windows to create your partitions instead of linux?
     
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  3. AdamW

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    AdamW, Jan 25, 2008
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  4. blaaze

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    Well first of all Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux so you do have Linux... I tried using Ubuntu to create my partitions but eventually gave up on it... If you just use a partitioning program through Windows Ubuntu will see that partition as a separate partition and you can do complete installation on that... The problem with letting Ubuntu do the partition is it does not always play nicely with Windows... When i first installed Ubuntu on my computer letting Ubuntu take care of everything, it messed up my windows boot and i ended up reformatting everything... The best solution would be to use a separate hard drive for Ubuntu but thats out of the question since you have a laptop... I would try creating a partition in Windows (You can use some free software for that) Then boot with the Ubuntu live CD and install ubuntu on that new partition

    Anyone have good recommendations for a partitioning software?
     
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  5. AdamW

    AdamW Notebook Geek

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    First off when you said I had linux I thought you meant I had it installed on my computer already and was using it, but thats what I'm trying to do.

    And I have been trying to create a partition in windows using GParted but it's not working as I said in my first post. So is the any other freeware for creating partitions that you know about?
     
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    Use windows disk management.
     
    nizzy1115, Jan 26, 2008
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  7. blaaze

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    wait... does that mean you tried using Ubuntu to create a partition? Just to make sure have you tried:
    not creating any partition in windows then boot from ubuntu live cd
    click install
    follow those instructions
    when it comes to Prepare Disk Space you can resize the current drive to whatever size you want to delegate to your linux distro...
    if that doesnt work you should then try creating a windows partition

    when you said you were using gparted i assumed you were using the Ubuntu partitioner (the one from those instructions) mainly because i only used gparted on linux and never in windows... sorry about the confusion...
     
    blaaze, Jan 26, 2008
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