On Wednesday 07 September 2011 13:16:36 Richard Parsons wrote:
Hi, I've recently bought a Compaq laptop. It currently has Windows 7 installed and I want to dual boot with Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, Compaq have already partitioned the hard disk into four partitions. The largest partition, which is 480GB is the second. If I begin the installer, and resize the second partition to create free space, then I'm told that it is "unuseable". I believe that the extra partitions are for recovery etc.
So what can I do? Is there a way of getting Ubuntu installed without disturbing the contents of the partitions already setup?
Thanks in advance Richard
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Hi Richard, Why don't you make an image of the windows partition using dd, then repartition as you like. dd the image back to the disk (same partition size of course), then install Ubuntu with dual boot. You won't need to worry about NTLDR in the MBR, since you will be using GRUB to boot either.
This way also gives you a backup of Windows should things go wrong.
Stuart
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