[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Greg Freemyer]

Vista and win7 have dropped the old CHS stupidity.

Most Linux tools did not get equivalent updates until late 2009 / early 2010.

So you need relatively new tools that don't worry about cylinder
boundaries, etc.

Fyi: current partitioning tools default to 1MB boundaries.

The trouble is old partitioners consider it illegal.

Greg

On 9/25/10, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> I bought a new laptop and I'm trying to install Ubuntu on it. The firs time
> around, I ended up destroying the Windows installation (which I did not want
> to do). The second time I went in and looked for the "side by side" option
> for installing from the live CD. It wasn't there. So, I decided to try
> GParted. I shrank the nearly 475 gigs dedicated to Windows in half. After
> that, I am left with 235 gigs of unallocated space. The Ubuntu installer
> will neither format nor install to that space. Gparted won't format it
> either. So, from where I am now, there is nothing I can do with that space
> either with the Ubuntu installer or GParted. The "Format to" option is just
> grayed out in GParted. I don't remember my last install being this hard.
>
> This is a Windows 7, 64 bit laptop.
>

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