roee88
October 25th, 2012, 04:28 PM
Hi,
I'm trying to dual boot windows 8 and ubuntu.
System has only one 500GB HD.
Initially windows 7 and OSX were installed on disk. 160GB used for OSX and the rest for Windows 7.
I then decided to replace both with windows 8 (from dreamspark) and give it the entire HD space. So far all good.
Trying to install ubuntu alongside windows 8:
* The installation partitioning tool showed partitions similar to the old set up (160GB as /dev/sda2 unknown and the rest as /dev/sda3 ntfs). Installation failed in the resize partition step.
* Went back to windows 8. Disabled hibernation used windows' disk management to create a 50GB of free space (to be used by ubuntu)
* Ubuntu partitioning tool still shows the older partitions and installation still fails. Using the "Try ubuntu" options I can see the file explorer itself does see the correct disk size.
http://i48.tinypic.com/2q9zxvc.png
http://i46.tinypic.com/25as1aw.png
Any help would be appreciated ;)
I'm trying to dual boot windows 8 and ubuntu.
System has only one 500GB HD.
Initially windows 7 and OSX were installed on disk. 160GB used for OSX and the rest for Windows 7.
I then decided to replace both with windows 8 (from dreamspark) and give it the entire HD space. So far all good.
Trying to install ubuntu alongside windows 8:
* The installation partitioning tool showed partitions similar to the old set up (160GB as /dev/sda2 unknown and the rest as /dev/sda3 ntfs). Installation failed in the resize partition step.
* Went back to windows 8. Disabled hibernation used windows' disk management to create a 50GB of free space (to be used by ubuntu)
* Ubuntu partitioning tool still shows the older partitions and installation still fails. Using the "Try ubuntu" options I can see the file explorer itself does see the correct disk size.
http://i48.tinypic.com/2q9zxvc.png
http://i46.tinypic.com/25as1aw.png
Any help would be appreciated ;)