dadonka
December 29th, 2011, 09:31 PM
Hi!
I'm a newbie, so I'd appreciate a bit of help with partitioning:
I have a Samsung RF510 64-bit laptop with Windows 7 preinstalled. Samsung has a built-in recovery solution. I would like to start the whole installation from scratch first XP, then Win 7 then Ubuntu. I've been searching ... but I'm not really getting satisfactory answers.
These are the current partitions:
no drive letter 20 GB Primary (recovery partition)
no drive letter 100 MB primary (System, Active)
C: 231 GB NTFS primary (boot, page file, crash dump)
D: 344 GB NTFS Ext/logical
Sooo my question:
How should I partition the harddisk? Obviously, I would like a back door in case it all goes wrong. Apparently I'm supposed to leave the recovery partition, then allocate a primary to each windows OS and then use logical partitions to install ubuntu. Can that be right? But I can only use 3 primary partitions and I need one to boot, right? Now I've been on a few sites to look for advice and this is my incomplete partition table
Sda? Primary – ext3 boot Grub ?
Sda? primary? recovery partition (recovery partition? Remove this part and create rescue CD?)
Sda2 primary NTFS - for XP (not concerned about the size for now)
Sda3 primary NTFS - for win 7
sda5 logical ext4 - /root 50 GB
sda6 swap 2 GB
sda7 logical ext4 - /home
I'm a bit confused about the boot partition ... and what do I do about the recovery partition? I am aware that you can only have a max of 4 primaries or 3 primaries and a number of logical partitions.
Another tricky bit for me is getting the windows installations sorted. Now apparently, I can download a win 7 iso and use my license key to activate which will hopefully mean I get a clean install without all the Samsung bits. My XP version is ancient and will not recognise the SATA disk. I will slipstream XP and SP3 to a bootable CD using nlite. I've done that before on an older laptop and that worked.
Right now I'm a bit worried that I end up with an unusable laptop ...
... so any help, tips or links would be fantastic!
Thanks in advance
dadonka
I'm a newbie, so I'd appreciate a bit of help with partitioning:
I have a Samsung RF510 64-bit laptop with Windows 7 preinstalled. Samsung has a built-in recovery solution. I would like to start the whole installation from scratch first XP, then Win 7 then Ubuntu. I've been searching ... but I'm not really getting satisfactory answers.
These are the current partitions:
no drive letter 20 GB Primary (recovery partition)
no drive letter 100 MB primary (System, Active)
C: 231 GB NTFS primary (boot, page file, crash dump)
D: 344 GB NTFS Ext/logical
Sooo my question:
How should I partition the harddisk? Obviously, I would like a back door in case it all goes wrong. Apparently I'm supposed to leave the recovery partition, then allocate a primary to each windows OS and then use logical partitions to install ubuntu. Can that be right? But I can only use 3 primary partitions and I need one to boot, right? Now I've been on a few sites to look for advice and this is my incomplete partition table
Sda? Primary – ext3 boot Grub ?
Sda? primary? recovery partition (recovery partition? Remove this part and create rescue CD?)
Sda2 primary NTFS - for XP (not concerned about the size for now)
Sda3 primary NTFS - for win 7
sda5 logical ext4 - /root 50 GB
sda6 swap 2 GB
sda7 logical ext4 - /home
I'm a bit confused about the boot partition ... and what do I do about the recovery partition? I am aware that you can only have a max of 4 primaries or 3 primaries and a number of logical partitions.
Another tricky bit for me is getting the windows installations sorted. Now apparently, I can download a win 7 iso and use my license key to activate which will hopefully mean I get a clean install without all the Samsung bits. My XP version is ancient and will not recognise the SATA disk. I will slipstream XP and SP3 to a bootable CD using nlite. I've done that before on an older laptop and that worked.
Right now I'm a bit worried that I end up with an unusable laptop ...
... so any help, tips or links would be fantastic!
Thanks in advance
dadonka