evelez
August 14th, 2008, 04:33 PM
:confused:Hello, am trying to dual boot ubuntu 8.04 and Vista 64 bit. I installed vista 64 bit first on to my 250 GB HD. I shrunk the 250 GB HD in vista using vista's partitioning tool. The new partition shows has free space on the vista partitioning tool. I made a 25 GB free space partition to install ubuntu.
Once I boot the live cd and reach the partition tool in ubuntu, it gives me the following options,
1. Guided- resize SCSI1 (0,0,0) Partition #3 (SDA) and use freed space of 80 GB
2. Guided- Use entire disk, which I do not want to do, I want to keep vista.
3. Guided- use the largest continuous free space.
and manual
when I try option 3, it gives me an error which reads- "free space is too small to be automatically partitioned."
When I go into manual it shows the following partitions,
/dev/sda
free space 0mb
/dev/sda1 fat 32 209mb- 209mb used
/dev/sda2 163831mb unknown
free space 134mb
/dev/sda3 ntfs 85883mb and 0mb used
free space 0mb
I only made one partition in vista, which was 25gb in size of free space out of my 250 GB which leaves vista with the rest.
My 25GB of free space for ubuntu does not show up on the ubuntu partitioning tool. I tried many ways, shrinking via vista, unshrinking via vista and partitioning the drive via ubuntu, but it still shows the same partitions, i wrote above. I find it very weird.
I hope one of you guys can help me. I searched everywhere and to no avail.
Am not new in the dual booting scene but this here has me stumped. Thanks for any help sent over.
Once I boot the live cd and reach the partition tool in ubuntu, it gives me the following options,
1. Guided- resize SCSI1 (0,0,0) Partition #3 (SDA) and use freed space of 80 GB
2. Guided- Use entire disk, which I do not want to do, I want to keep vista.
3. Guided- use the largest continuous free space.
and manual
when I try option 3, it gives me an error which reads- "free space is too small to be automatically partitioned."
When I go into manual it shows the following partitions,
/dev/sda
free space 0mb
/dev/sda1 fat 32 209mb- 209mb used
/dev/sda2 163831mb unknown
free space 134mb
/dev/sda3 ntfs 85883mb and 0mb used
free space 0mb
I only made one partition in vista, which was 25gb in size of free space out of my 250 GB which leaves vista with the rest.
My 25GB of free space for ubuntu does not show up on the ubuntu partitioning tool. I tried many ways, shrinking via vista, unshrinking via vista and partitioning the drive via ubuntu, but it still shows the same partitions, i wrote above. I find it very weird.
I hope one of you guys can help me. I searched everywhere and to no avail.
Am not new in the dual booting scene but this here has me stumped. Thanks for any help sent over.