MagicalGirl
August 11th, 2012, 01:55 AM
Hi!
I just bought a laptop for college, which came with Windows 7 and 750GB of hard drive space, and I'd like to dual-boot it with Ubuntu. I'm trying to partition because I understand that that's how you have two OS's on one hard drive.
The computer came with four partitions already:
SYSTEM_DRV, which is a "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition),"
Windows7_OS, which is a "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition),"
"LENOVO, which is a "Healthy (Primary Partition),"
and a nameless one which is a "Healthy (OEM Partition)."
At the advice of one of my friends, I shrank Windows7_OS and intended to make that space into a new partition for Ubuntu.
The Ubuntu installer lists this space as "unusable." Windows Disk Manager simply calls it "unallocated," and offers to let me turn it into a New Simple Volume, then warns me that this will "convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s)," and I "will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume)." Then it tells me there's not enough space.
Am I not allowed to have more than four partitions? Should I have told Disk Manager to format the volume? (It only offers me NTFS and exFAT.)
Apparently I'm supposed to get an Install Ubuntu Alongside Your Previous Operating System option when I start, but I just get an Erase Your Disk And Install Ubuntu Instead option and Something Else.
Besides crying, what should I try?
Thank you!
I just bought a laptop for college, which came with Windows 7 and 750GB of hard drive space, and I'd like to dual-boot it with Ubuntu. I'm trying to partition because I understand that that's how you have two OS's on one hard drive.
The computer came with four partitions already:
SYSTEM_DRV, which is a "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition),"
Windows7_OS, which is a "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition),"
"LENOVO, which is a "Healthy (Primary Partition),"
and a nameless one which is a "Healthy (OEM Partition)."
At the advice of one of my friends, I shrank Windows7_OS and intended to make that space into a new partition for Ubuntu.
The Ubuntu installer lists this space as "unusable." Windows Disk Manager simply calls it "unallocated," and offers to let me turn it into a New Simple Volume, then warns me that this will "convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s)," and I "will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume)." Then it tells me there's not enough space.
Am I not allowed to have more than four partitions? Should I have told Disk Manager to format the volume? (It only offers me NTFS and exFAT.)
Apparently I'm supposed to get an Install Ubuntu Alongside Your Previous Operating System option when I start, but I just get an Erase Your Disk And Install Ubuntu Instead option and Something Else.
Besides crying, what should I try?
Thank you!