Trouble with partitioner.Won't dual boot with Win7 [solved]

[Wolfie Lee]

Hello, I am doing a fresh install of a dual - boot Win7 / Ultimate Edition 2.8. When the partitioner pops up, it does not give an option to allocate for the Ultimate Edition OS along side Windows 7....and won't let me modify the size or add the Linux partition without wiping out the Win partition, while I should be able to specify less room for windows than it has, leaving free space to set up the Linux portion....If I recall, this was NOT an issue the first time I used this Live Disk. The MD5 sum was verified, as well, on this disk...it's like the partitioner doesn't see the Windows partition, yet shows an ntfs when it does a scan.

I am in the Live linux session, right now, with no where to go.

Screens:

I SHOULD see an option to install along side current OS's, here, right?

and, since I have done them setting up partitions manually, I tried, but just got the option to change the partition, not RESIZE, to free up space...any option from here leads to getting rid of the current ntfs (Win7) partition...

Help?

[billhedrick]

Have you tried to partition the drive within windows? That worked for me.

[mcarollo]

while in the live disc, run gparted. make sure the ntfs (win 7) partition is not mounted and do a resize. If the install does not see the unpartitioned space, you may have all the disc as part of the Win 7 partition. You will need to resize the win 7 partition down to a smaller size and then let the installer use the free space. The the install side by side should work. Give it a try

[onosendai58]

Leave at least 60GB for 7, otherwise it won`t be happy.

[Wolfie Lee]

Thanks, guys....Gparted didn't work, but told me what to do....Windows (a FRESH Install!?!??) had some bad sectors, and it said to run chdsk on /f drive and resrtart it twice....It played nice, then, allowing the side-by-side install to take place.

So, Win7 likes a little breathing room, eh? I only have an 80GB HDD in this system (not mine, my sister's...she just doesn't need the room). Would that cause it to be entirely sluggish, with only have a 40GB partition to play on? Been have that problem a while, and was PART of the reason for the fresh installs....?

[onosendai58]

I would imagine so, yes. Vista wanted 100GBs, lol. I`ve found that having at least 60 is a good number, at least with 7 Ultimate. It`s snappy and runs well, idles very low, easy on system resources and never has to swap. (Windows OSs are bitches for GB, lol.)

[Wolfie Lee]

OK...thanks again. They are just gonna have to jump up to around 150GB range with their hard drive, I guess. SATA would work LOADS better for them too, since it's an option with the MB. Maybe THEN I can get all those stinking little games to work right, on ONE OS, not SOME in windows and some in wine....

[gio]

Hello, I am doing a fresh install of a dual - boot Win7 / Ultimate Edition 2.8. When the partitioner pops up, it does not give an option to allocate for the Ultimate Edition OS along side Windows 7....and won't let me modify the size or add the Linux partition without wiping out the Win partition, while I should be able to specify less room for windows than it has, leaving free space to set up the Linux portion....If I recall, this was NOT an issue the first time I used this Live Disk. The MD5 sum was verified, as well, on this disk...it's like the partitioner doesn't see the Windows partition, yet shows an ntfs when it does a scan.

I am in the Live linux session, right now, with no where to go.

Screens:

I SHOULD see an option to install along side current OS's, here, right?

Screenshot.png

and, since I have done them setting up partitions manually, I tried, but just got the option to change the partition, not RESIZE, to free up space...any option from here leads to getting rid of the current ntfs (Win7) partition...

Screenshot-1.png

Help?

I have the same problem exactly, and I already check all things and I found in the Windows 7 partition are created 2 one is: 100MB Partition FAT 16 and the other is NTFS using the rest of the HDD, and I try installing Vista and Windows XP and have no problem because they only use NTFS partition (Just one) if this a problem hope so in the new version fix this.

[onosendai58]

The 100MB has to be there for Windows. For the rest, just run Gparted and shrink the Windows main install image to approx. 60-80GB. Then create a new partition, or several, in what`s left, formatted as ext4. Install Ultimate Edition to one of them, (btw, make a small partition for swap, at least 2GB). Actually, the installer will do all this for you, just choose "install alongside existing operating systems."

[billhedrick]

agreed, that's the way I did it.