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SO I'm trying to partition my current windows c drive (of 224 gigs, not including the healty EISA) for ubuntu, (I have only used about half of it and have 115 gigs of free space), But when I go to the shrink volume option I can only shrink it down to 13 gigs I know this is not enough and want to know why windows doesn't let me use all of that free space, and if there is a work around or fix so I can have at least 50 gigs of free space for a separate ubuntu drive and 1 gig swap drive
thanks for getting back so fast and yes I have live CD, but I'd rather have Linux boot straight from my machine (after an install) and not from a disk , and haven't eve booted or installed ubuntu yet because I'd like more space, I'm using the windows disk management tool to shrink my current C drive for a partition
If you choose *install* Ubuntu from the live cd, you will be able to resize (shrink) your windows partition (during the install process) and to install Ubuntu alongside windows.
thanks for getting back so fast and yes I have live CD, but I'd rather have Linux boot straight from my machine (after an install) and not from a disk , and haven't eve booted or installed ubuntu yet because I'd like more space, I'm using the windows disk management tool to shrink my current C drive for a partition
The reason that you can only shrink partition by 13 Gigs is that you already shrank it before, Windows disk management will only shrink upto 50%.
Using a live-cd is the only option to shrink more, but that also depends on how full your c:/ drive is.
If you have free space gparted-live works quite well.
I'd also recommend defragging your Windows disk first as it may have files scattered all over. You need a large chunk of contiguous space to put Linux in and this may enable you to get enough free space using the Windows tools.
Always do at least one full backup before messing with partitions...
For the CD, did you burn it slowly eg x5? Fast burns sometimes don't take. Obviously burn as iso image, not as file, and check the checksum usually available from the website, before using.
So I just created a live CD to partition and use Linux and put it in to boot but I keep getting this error
Error 0400 reading Sector 354294
It just repeats again and again Linux will not load
At which step in the install process do you get that error? The more precisely you will describe what happened, the easier it will be to troubleshoot the install.
And, as others already mentioned, you should first backup whatever important data you may have.
Looks like the OP is using Windows Vista
Anyway I have a Vista machine that doesn't know how to write iso's with it's burning software, I downloaded CdBurnrXP to splve the issue
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