On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:36 PM, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote:
> most probabaly ur hard disk partitions are converted into dynamic > this happens when u trys to do more than 5 primary partitions > > always u have to do 4 primary partitions and then any one of the four we > can make into another four parts called extended partitions > (this is a bit tricky) > > hm didn't knew that will check again for that. > and if u have already four partitions u shouls shrink some space in windows > and dont create new volume , the unallocated space can be seen when u boot > through linux live cd and u can install the distro on it , and in this > process u dont have any tensions . > I have been doing installations like that but in this particular case it is showing problem may be because of the no . of partitions issue! > > for u now i think u may have to format all the hard disk and install > windows again then try the above options . > > u may have the recovery disks given by the vendor , and as u said new > laptop so u dont need to bother about data . > > actually the OP has a lot of stuff in hard disk now + you know it is quite a big thing in windows when we have to install each software again. > try it , and by the way check any other options if u can > yeah will try it thanks for help hope it works! > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Parin Sharma http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
