[dundee] partitions

[gordon dunlop]

2008/9/29 Jacek Sapieja <sapieja at interia.pl>:
>                Gordon,
>
>                Well, I was installing ubuntu and was
>                a bit trigger happy. I wiped out new windows vista
>                (not many data). I am trying to make dual boot now
>                but no windows gets installed ( ubuntu is there luckily)
>                during windows installation some partitions were made NTFS
>                some left ext3. A mess means there are some random partitions.
>                I was trying gparted live cd but it does not have
>                marge option.
>
>                My problem with vista is that it stops in the last phase of the installation
>                called "Completing installation". I can see the dots going right and left but
>                nothing ever happens. It is like 3/4 of the process (according to the bar).
>                I found some trace on the web saying that it might be partition problrm in fact.
>                I have tried two different images of vista burned to the cd.
>
>                "I haven't seen it in a while but it might be a faulty partition such as overlapping partitions. Not sure but some people had issues with too many linux installs not allowing ms to run. They had to zero out the partition tables. I can't find that link."
>
Yes, that is why Gparted is not allowing you to manipulate anything. I
don't know much about Windows Vista, maybe someone else can talk to
you on that. It is usually excepted that a Windows operating system is
installed first as the first primary NTFS partition and then after
that a Linux OS/OS's in the next primary partitions or sometimes an
extended partition is created and broken up into smaller logical
partitions. If the partition tables are so screwed up I think it might
be best to save any data, reformat the disk, put on Windows Vista and
then Ubuntu. Maybe someone else has another idea.

Gordon

> Might try a system diag suite.
>
>
>
>                It is partition logic that cannot detect the disk. Partition magic would have to be
>                installed in windows.
>
>
>                             Jacek
>
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