[covert215]

I'm trying to create a dual-boot on my eMachines T6524. It has a 200GB hard drive in 2 partitinos. 182GB or so main partition in NTFS and a 5GB or so as a backup in FAT. I'm in Ubuntu Live right now and I'm liking it.

I tried to install the OS, but I ended up with some errors in the partitioning. I tried to reduce the 182GB partition to 40GB. I then created an extended partition with a 100GB(/home and shared) ext3 logical, 40GB (ubuntu)logical, and a 2GB swap. I received an error trying to resize the 182GB partition. How should I go about this? I was forced to use the extended partition because I would have had more than 4.

I even tried expanding the ntfs partition to 100gb. It still doesn't work. There is only 30.2gb of data on the drive and it is defragged to the front.

[covert215]

help?

[covert215]

it still wouldn't resize even when I only tried to resize the 1 partition

[CouchMaster]

This might help - http://www.packtpub.com/article/Part...g_with_GParted

[covert215]

I was using gparted and received the error. Actually, I followed someone elses advice in a different forum. The first steps of the partitioning worked, but it failed afterwards. I lost my entire harddrive. I'm reinstalling the OS now.

[InterKnight]

Hi there.

This link was posted in another thread, and it seems revelant to your situation:
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~mjmille2/h...x-and-windows/

One thing that I would recommend is this: After you install XP, copy these files to a floppy disk:

boot.ini
ntldr
ntdetect.com

This has saved me in many a situation because the floppy is usually able to boot Windows XP in the event that something goes wrong during a Linux installation.

Hope this information will be helpful to you.

Take care.

[covert215]

It doesn't matter anymore. My hard drive was wiped clean. I reinstalled XP and Ubuntu is going right now(I'm on my brothers laptop). I'm just mad because I was too lazy to back up some files and I lost some of my clients' websites.

[tomiboi]

Check this one out as well:
http://www.hezardastan.org/breezy_xp...ditpartgparted