Hello Sreekumar,
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Partitioning_hard_disks_.28general_information.29
Should answer your questions about hard drive partitioning. As to resizing
partitions safely, its always better to backup all your data, and do a fresh
partitioning.
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aas
Thanks for enlightening. What is the maximum no. of partitions that can be
created in a hard disk? Some space is there in my hard disk unpartitioned.
Is Windows cannot be installed, if there are more than the permissible no.
of partitions in a disk? I could not install Windows in disk 1, as the
*Points to be noted i**nstalling Windows and any GNULinux distro (dual
boot) when the hard disk is completely free*
- Always install Windows first. If you install Windows after GNULinux, it
will override GNULinux's boot loader with the Windows boot loader. And
Windows Boot Loader don't
i would suggest to do the partitioning with windows partitiioning tool
1. install win 7 to a 80 GB partition(suggested), do not create partitions
for rest of the unallocated space at this point
2. after windows is installed and fully configured(drivers etc)
right click My
Now (after one more day), I cannot access both Ubuntu and Windows. Error
message: Grub rescue>
I tried to install Windows afresh. Computer gone stuck after the first
re-start. (Used 2 different DVDs. Same effect)
I lost valuable data and 20 GB of classified and customised songs after this
probl
Friends,
3 days ago I tried to install Ubuntu 11.10 in my computer. The first
2 attempts failed with a message 'Error:No such partition Grub
rescue>', on booting the computer.
In the 3rd time, boot loader appeared and I could access Ubuntu.
But when I select Windows 7, the above said message appe
