On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Mehdi <akri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use 200 GB and 2 GB Ram. > WinRe: 1.5 Gb > C: Vista 52 Gb > D: Linux 24 > E: swap 2.4 > F: data 107 GB > > now i using Vista & Linux together without any problem but i want reinstall > my Vista again & i think my harddisk partition is not good and I do not know > the right type of partition in that situation.
have you tried to check the HD using Palimpsest Disk Utility. I too had a HDproblem and what exactly the problem was no software could tell me, except that there were too many bad blocks and that the HD would fail any time - so i had to replace / upgrade to a larger HD :-) > > You can have only two primary partitions and the rest need to be under > a logical partition. > I think we can have 4 Primary partitions. I think you may be write ?? the 4th partition while primary in nature will be the extended one > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I'm sure that my current partition is not good. see it again. i use the > Fdisk -l in terminal: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda2 * 192 6948 54272000 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 6949 9987 24410767+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 9988 24321 115137855 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 9988 10352 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda6 10353 24321 112204800 7 HPFS/NTFS > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > see this one, I use the parted /dev/sda print > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 1049kB 1574MB 1573MB primary ntfs > 2 1574MB 57.1GB 55.6GB primary ntfs boot > 3 57.1GB 82.1GB 25.0GB primary ext3 > 4 82.1GB 200GB 118GB extended > 5 82.1GB 85.1GB 3002MB logical linux-swap(v1) > 6 85.1GB 200GB 115GB logical ntfs > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > But my Vista partiton showing: > My Current partition: > 1. WinRe(EISA Configuration) Primary > 2. c: Vista Primary > 3. d: /Linux primary > 4. e: Swap primary > 5. f: data Logical driver If you have Wince RE why don't you back up your data and then recover your Wistaa and then install Ubuntu. If you have data on F: back it up first and then using gparted you can merge the last 3 partitions and shift the data to the front of the partitions. The restart your partitioning - by leaving some space for F and then use the rest of the partition ad extended under which linux can be installed. and make the partitions as i suggested earlier. boot /root / home / swap Your partitioning could look like this Wince RE Primary Wistaa - Primary F: Data - Primary Extended /boot swap /root /home If you intended to use linux a lot i suggest keeping f data small and keep most space for home. While M$ wo;t easily see anything on LInux you can be sure Linux can see and access (not run) everything on any wincedows platform ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
