I'm at exactly that same place. The Disk Management information shows a 7.45GB Primary Partition, no File System type listed, 100% free. Sounds like it might be there for use in recovery perhaps. When I did select "Delete Partition", a pop-up stated "The selected partition was not created by Windows and might contain data recognized by other operation systems." So why did Toshiba create it, and why does it say it may contain other data when it also shows it is 100% free?
Another interesting thing: My system stated that I could only shrink the Vista partition to 70GB, even though it indicated that only 18GB was actually used. A note below said something about "usage by snapshots or pagefiles" making the shrunken partition bigger than I would think. -- Alan Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * Michael Schuster (Michael.Schuster at Sun.COM) wrote: > >> On 02/25/09 17:12, Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> >>> * Michael Schuster (Michael.Schuster at Sun.COM) wrote: >>> >>>> All, >>>> >>>> I just took posession of a Tecra M10. the built-in disk is 149GB, of >>>> which 40 are given to the pre-installed Vista and 2 other partitions >>>> use 1.5 and 7.5 GB resp. >>>> I was going to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on the remaining 100.1 GB >>>> on what the installer shows me is the 4th partition (the others are >>>> "unknown/NTFS/unknown"), though *whatever* size I enter I get a >>>> dialog telling me that "an adjustment was necessary ...", and the >>>> size of the Solaris partition is reset to 0.1GB. >>>> >>> Try pressing '=' in the size dialog. It should calculate to use the >>> rest of the remaining space on the disk. >>> >> I did, same result. >> >> I went back to Vista and deleted the 3rd partition, now I can install. >> > > That's interesting. Do you know what that 3rd partition actually was? > By that I mean, what type (other than unknown, did Windows say what type > it was)? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20090305/49156ca8/attachment.html>
