On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:05:28PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 7 September 2011 13:16, Richard Parsons richard.lee.parsons@gmail.com 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.
The partition is probably tagged and formatted with NTFS - delete it from within Windows to be sure it is the right (empty!) one. When you start the Ubuntu installer again it should see the hole.
Thank you for that tip. I'm hoping to keep the windows partition though. My idea is to reduce the windows partition to say 80GB, to free up approximately 400GB for the Ubuntu installation. If I delete the second partition won't the windows installation be lost?
Good luck,
I think I'm going to need it! I'm wondering whether what I want to do is even possible. Perhaps I need to be looking at a tool like Ghost?
Richard