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I used aoemi partition editor in that we have an option of rebuilding the master boot record.
And yes now I have a dual boot system but I think I will install fedora too, have to get a hang of yum....

Solved it! !!!!
I rebuilt the MBR and voila!
I was able to solve it.
thank you very much sudodus for taking time to addreas my problem you were very patient on this one.
Thank you again

I create the partition uaing aomei partition editor under windows, but as of now I have deleted it.
So there are 4 partitions, c drive (windows), recovery, another 200mb partition and 87gb...

i referred to this guide here

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/h2-fix-msdos-pt.php

and i found i have overlapping partitions.

and upon running the command

$ sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print

I have a laptop running win 7, and wanted to install ubuntu 12.04 alongside win 7, so i created a partition for that.
I am not doing a wubi install.

Under win 7 i already had created a partition...

EDIT
i can not see the partitions During Installation
other then that i can see the drives in the file manager normally

the problem is i am trying to install it and i cant see the partition i created for installation, in fact i cannot see any partition there
all i can see is hard disk as a single entity, no...

i was installing a flavor of ubuntu in my laptop, when i encountered a problem

"Partition table entries are not in order".
I have read solutions to this online but they were completely out of my...

use sudo nautilus, your privileges are not elevated

http://askubuntu.com/questions/98489/how-can-i-elevate-nautilus-privileges-to-move-or-copy-a-folder-as-root

couldn't have put it better, only if OP is reading this

which is what i did :)

I have downloaded and tried debian live, read my previous post.

i have a 512 kilo bits per second connection, RTFM on that

which desktop manager does it have?

EDIT: found it, Comice OS Shell

all these long, detailed and enlightening discussions about debian and FOSS
come to think of it, i just asked a simple question about which iso to download!!!!!

ok guys i just finished downloading and trying debian gnome live cd
to be honest there was nothing much impressive to catch my attention



main reason i didnt install it, cause my qualcomm...

programming technique is OS independent, its the same on paper as it is on computer
as for OS, its a personal flavor, i find programming in windows very cumbersome nowadays, but when i was...

i dont think if its huge that they are unofficial, if i can run them live, why the hell not?
even if they might or might not have one or two proprietary drivers/software, dont think if it makes much...

either ways i dont think if there's any need for me to use proprietary drivers, i'm cool with open source, and this is just for learning purpose

well thank you, exactly what i was looking for, i already have downloaded 1st cd, but will download gnome live cd too, much more comfortable with it.



Thanks for the heads up, but i'll install...

ok thanks currently i am downloading just 1st cd, and i'll install it report back
shame there's no live cd for wheezy yet...

have you tried shutting down in win 7 and xp?

i have to say its stability is better than 12.10, but interface is cluttered, and at the first boot i had no idea what and how to do.
and it has software center of its own i guess.

the procedure for network install looks a little complicated to me
i already have several distros on my computer
is it safe to do a network install, i mean it wont format the whole drive would it?...

yup i have it installed in my system..... apparently its attempt to make a lookalike of mac on linux
kinda like it, its ubuntu based

so that means from this page here, if i install cd1 that should be enough??
and @darksword i dont know how that installation works