Ubuntu – Win 7 Dual Boot

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Well, you have a bigger problem than you think...
You can only define 4 'Primary' partitions on a hard drive and you already 
have them, which renders your 60GB of space invisible and unusable. 

The solution is to set one of those primary partitions as 'Extended', which 
will allow you to create (don't remember how many) 'sort-of virtual 
partitions' inside a partition. 

The challenge that you face is that you have to remove one of your existing 
partitions to make that change, and probably rebuild it after the facts, but 
given that there are only 794681325 ways to accomplish that, I'll personally 
wait until you asks more questions.
ET 

 

G Gambill writes: 

> I have reduced the Windows C drive partition by 60 Gig and now have a 60
> Gig unusable partition.. 
> 
> While trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 (from a DVD received at the last
> installfest) I get a message about no Root file system defined. 
> 
> The partitions look like this. 
> 
> /dev/sda 
> 
> /dev/sda1 ntfs 208 mb 
> 
> /dev/sda2 ntfs 171245 mb 
> 
> unusable 60000 mb 
> 
> /dev/sda3 ntfs 18494 mb 
> 
> /dev/sda4 fat32 108 mb 
> 
> How do I define a root file system? 
> 
> TIA 
> 
> George 
> 
> -- 
> Success builds confidence. Failure builds knowledge.