I'm attempting to load Ubuntu 9.04 onto my new Lenovo SL400, with Factory settings. I have Windows XP Pro installed onto my Preloaded (C: ) drive, and want to partition this drive so I can have both Ubuntu and XP installed on my computer. When running the Ubuntu installer off the CD, I am told that there is no operating system detected, and have only two options: Install Ubuntu on all 250G of my hard drive, or perform a manual partition. I've tried cleaning up Windows XP, running many disk defragmentations, but the Ubuntu installer still won't recognize that I've got XP already installed.
I've looked at all the similar threads I can find, and tried some of the suggested solutions, including:
- Going to GParted and trying to create a new partition, but I'm told I have one "unallocated" partition (250G) and creating a new partition will erase everything I have on the entire disk (dev/sda) (So I didn't do that).
- I also ran the sudo fdisk -l command, and got back
/dev/sda1 * 1 29572 237537058 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 29573 30402 6659517 12 Compaq diagnostics
I'm new to Ubuntu, and would really like to run it as my main OS, but XP is also rather necessary for a number of other functions.
Any suggestions?
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