I am having some trouble installing Debian on my PC and I get the same problem when attempting to install Fedora Core 2.

My hd setup is
40 gb
16 gb w2k (primary)
12 gb - (extended)
12 gb ntfs (logical)
11 gb free space

160 gb
80 gb ntfs
80 gb ntfs

My problem is when I go to partition in Fedora I get the following error:
"unable to align partition properly"
When I go to partition in Debian I get a similar error after creating the swap and boot partition that the space is unusable because the geometry is messed up.

I don't believe that my Win2k parition is to blame as I have a similar setup on my laptop and I got Fedora running with no problems.

I'd tried fixboot and fixmbr from the w2k command console.

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be grateful, sorry if this is a duplicate posting.

Alex

hi,

i would suggest getting rid of the ntfs partition on your 40gig and also deleting the extended. (you seem to have enough ntfs on your other hard disk anyway)

it is because your distro tries to creat an extended partition and fails because you already have one or detects the one you have but it has some kind of a conflict with the ntfs partition in your extended and can't do what it wants to do giving you that error.

if you just have your win partition on your 40 gig and nothing else (the rest just free) then there will be no problem as far as i know (i had a similar problem)

good luck