captainkat07
April 26th, 2008, 06:58 AM
While upgrading, I encountered and error. I was left with a system half Gutsy and half Hardy. So I downloaded the ISO and decided I'd reinstall. I had also just done this for a friend, so I can't figure out why it didn't work for me.
I used gparted on the live cd to delete my old Ubuntu partition and expanded my Windows partition to take its place. Then, while trying to install and use the guided partition editor in the installer, installation crashed. When I tried to run it again, it did not recognize my Windows Vista partition for what it was, so it did not give me the option to use the guided partition editor without overwriting the whole disk.
Now, I can't boot into Windows to use the Windows partition manager, and I can't figure out how to make a new partition in gparted.
I'm using the AMD64 version of 8.04.
(I would just reinstall Windows, except I don't have a hard drive to back up stuff on. Poor college student, you know...)
Any advice?
Thanks!!
I used gparted on the live cd to delete my old Ubuntu partition and expanded my Windows partition to take its place. Then, while trying to install and use the guided partition editor in the installer, installation crashed. When I tried to run it again, it did not recognize my Windows Vista partition for what it was, so it did not give me the option to use the guided partition editor without overwriting the whole disk.
Now, I can't boot into Windows to use the Windows partition manager, and I can't figure out how to make a new partition in gparted.
I'm using the AMD64 version of 8.04.
(I would just reinstall Windows, except I don't have a hard drive to back up stuff on. Poor college student, you know...)
Any advice?
Thanks!!