Dear all, Thank u all for your replies. . I am able to install linux in my laptop :D.
Solution: Took the Recovery backup and deleted that partition. Thanks and regards Harish On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 3:21 AM, manauwar sheikh <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Harish, > you can only create 4 primary partition on your Hard drive,Actually it > is the feature of linux MBR.In dual boot system we have to create 3 > partition for linux viz /,/boot and swap.so it is better to delete > your one volume i.e 1 primary partition and make extended partition of > all free space. > After all you can create several logical partition on linux and both > window. > Hope this will definitely serve your purpose. > > > Manauwar Alam > LUGB,Bikaner > > > > > > On 10/13/11, Sumit Sati <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Harish, > > > > You can have only four primary partition in a hard drive or 3 primary and > 1 > > extended partition (any number of partition within extended partition). > > As you already have 4 primary partition, if you shrink any one of them > you > > will not be able to create any partition hence space will be "Unusable". > > > > I will suggest removing primary partition next to your unusable space and > > creating extended partition in that space. Further Linux can be installed > in > > any Logical partition :) > > > > *(most probably partition next to your shrink volume will be a recovery > one. > > If this is the case you can create recovery disk on optical media and > safely > > delete this partition). > > > > Regards, > > Sumit Sati > > > > -- > > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
