[munceenuts]

I have 3 hard drives and none of them seem to work when installing Ubuntu 7.10. (C: 10gb, has XP on it -- D: 40gb, has Vista on it and 7gb free and is where I want to install Ubuntu -- E: 320gb with 10gb free, I'd install it on here if that's my only option)

I wanted to try out Linux and I have XP and Vista installed already. I burned the installation CD on XP and tried to install it but it gave me some errors.



Not giving me the option to resize like in most of the tutorials I looked at.




It says this for all my hard drives when I try to view the files on them.


I would like to install it on a hard drive with lots of files on it already, also the one I have Vista on, so I need to somehow get the option to resize.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[diablo75]

1. Defragement whatever hard drive you finally decide to put the OS on.
2. Download the latest GParted Live CD ISO, and use it to manually shrink your current partition, leaving unallocated space. Then during the next install attempt, tell it to "use the largest contiguous space"
3. If none of that works, I would recommend buying a new hard drive, as all of them are very close to being full. If your computer can boot from USB devices, you might consider creating a bootable USB Flash Drive that can basically act as a portable OS you can carry around with you. Those things are cheap and damn handy!

[munceenuts]

I thought about it and I'm actually going to try to install Leopard for PC's. Unless it doesn't work, but most people said it does. I might still try that flash drive idea though, that'd be great.