Warbirds Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 I am having major Linux troubles. I've so far downloaded and ported the iso image of OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and I think Red Hat onto three different discs. I've only tried to install Ubuntu so far, but my problem is this; When I try to go a petition my HDD, it fails. No reason why, it just does. So now I have an extremely annoying popup about Windows not being Genuine, and since I didn't buy XP, and it came with my computer, I can't fix the little bastard. Though I'm probably gonna get yelled at by one of you (dunno), I only have one HDD. My friend said I should get an external HDD, but he never specified what connection it should use to attach to my computer. I'm thinking USB, but I have no idea. So I am currently stuck with WinXP, so I would really love some help with this. ~Warbirds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Can you take a screen shot of gparted failing and post it here please. Also, only a poor (as in not good) pirate install WGA ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbirds Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Can you take a screen shot of gparted failing and post it here please. Also, only a poor (as in not good) pirate install WGA ;) I can't take a screen shot because I have to restart my computer in order to get back to Windows. And I have no digital camera so I'm out of luck there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 I assume your using the Live CD installer. If you press the print screen button the screen shot program will appear, save the image (not as a bitmap) and upload it to a image host like imageshack.us. This is of course asuming you can use your internet connection out of the box with the Ubuntu live CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbirds Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 It has always failed when I use it without installing it, and it always fails during HDD petition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 ok, I'm confused now :P Please clarify exactly which CD image you wrote to disk and are using. Also, you must defragment your windows partition so all data on it are at the beginning of the partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 ok, I'm confused now :P Please clarify exactly which CD image you wrote to disk and are using. Also, you must defragment your windows partition so all data on it are at the beginning of the partition. You haven't had to defragment before using ntfsresize (which is what GParted uses) since version 1.9.0 which was released in 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Are you tring to use Ubuntu to reside a ntfs partition? This is fails here, I think its a problem with the ntfs-3g drivers included with Ubuntu, they also only allow Read only acccsess to ntfs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbirds Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Are you tring to use Ubuntu to reside a ntfs partition? This is fails here, I think its a problem with the ntfs-3g drivers included with Ubuntu, they also only allow Read only acccsess to ntfs. No, dispit the default Ubuntu kernel only supporting read only from ntfs file systems, gparted accesses the disk directly bypassing the necessity of ntfs support from the kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manimal Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 have you tried downloading the alternate install cd? ubuntu was pretty tricky in my experience with installing it on a newer machine. it was especially difficult on my friends SATA drive for some reason. using the alternate disc worked. also check out www.ubuntuforums.org I found this so far http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3...uring+partition that might help a bit.. are you trying to install it onto a fresh harddrive? or onto an exsisting winxp partition. some more info would be nice, like which version of ubuntu, what cd image of the version it is, what type of system its being installed on.. these also might help a bit: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/20/1654251 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4...rtition+failure http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4...rtition+failure http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4...rtition+failure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 ive had issues with Ubuntu's installer, so have quite a few ppl i have worked with, i suggest giving Fedora a go ^_^. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a5an0 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 google for systemrescuecd, its a linux disk that I use to resize ntfs partitions when ubuntu can't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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