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wavedash
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_ 		19. October 2007 @ 13:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a HP pavillion dv9000 laptop running windows vista home premium and am trying to configure a dual-boot with ubuntu 7.10. I know that i have to create a boot partition on my hard drive but the vista partition manager said that i could only shrink the windows partition of my 160 gig hard drive ( of which nearly 70 gigs is free ) down 1 gig. I then tried using a command line partition manager which told me the same thing. I have also tried a number of 3rd party live cd partition managers but they said my hard drive was not registered.

I know its possible ( and usually easy ) to do because a friend who also has vista used the included partition utility to create a 40 gig partition and successfully installed ubuntu with no problems. I believe the problem may lie in the fact that i have an included HP recovery partition but i cannot delete it because doing so would clear my entire hd.

Anything would be a big help at this point.
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faqman98
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_ 		20. October 2007 @ 16:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
have u tried using the partition maker in ubuntu to make the partition
EDIT: your sig is too large it needs to be under 50k OR ELSE
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wavedash
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_ 		20. October 2007 @ 17:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well i cant install ubuntu on my computer until i have a large enough partition for it. if i could even get 5 gigs or so i could install ubuntu and then use its partition manager but i cant do that with just a 1 gig
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