On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Vista and newer can resize its own NTFS partitions. Perhaps if you're
> trying to use XP then you'll need something else (GParted liveCD?).
I used Win7 Disk Management to carve out a raw slice on the boot drive
to install Ubuntu to. I had to initialize it to get Windows to see
it, but Ubuntu booted from a USB drive saw the partition and installed
to it.
I redid my netbook with XP to dual boot Ubuntu as well, but GPartEd
refused to repartition the drive, reporting an error. ("unsupported
flag", IIRC)
A freeware Windows utility *would* repartition the drive and let me
install Ubuntu on an ext4 slice. I used
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
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Dennis
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