MttFrog13 Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 Ok...a long story short i installed ubuntu linux...loved the OS but didn't support programs i needed...I allocated it some space on my hard drive and after decided i wasn't gonna use Ubuntu anymore i deleted that partition off my hard drive. Somehow that partition is now an extended logical partition. I couldn't delete it or format it to try to make it unallocated space so i could combine it back with my main primary drive. So i heard something on many forums about how my problem is caused because i have an oem drive and i would have to reinstall vista. I did this and it helped, i can now at least format the extended logical partition so i can use it unlike before, but still i can't delete it. When i try to delete it i get a message that "there is not enough space on the hard disk for this operation." To try to lead u in the right direction i think i heard something about a pagefile to free up space or something i'm not sure... What do i do??? If u need any info to help me just let me know and i'll get back to u really quick. thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vern Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 Have you tried booting from the vista dvd and running the recovery console; then open a command prompt and typing fixmbr? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 When you say "OEM" you either mean you bought the HDD stand alone, and installed it, or do you mean it was in the machine , pre loaded w/ Vista? If it is the second, is there a "backup drive " showing as well? If so, thats one of the reasons there is no space to remove partition. Use "gparted live cd" http://download.tuxfamily.org/gpartedlive/ , D/L the 1st ISO on the list , you can boot to this cd) to make any adjustments you want. But be sure you know exactly what you are changing, and watch the " flags" section. Change as little as possible when deleting a partition. The EXT3 partition is what Linux/Ubuntu (formated on Ubuntu installation as) uses as well as a swap, ans possibly a combination of others as well. But not sure why they weren't deleted during uninstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted February 28, 2008 Author CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 Have you tried booting from the vista dvd and running the recovery console; then open a command prompt and typing fixmbr? I'm not sure what all that means but i followed this guide. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=157838 When you say "OEM" you either mean you bought the HDD stand alone, and installed it, or do you mean it was in the machine , pre loaded w/ Vista? If it is the second, is there a "backup drive " showing as well? If so, thats one of the reasons there is no space to remove partition. Use "gparted live cd" http://download.tuxfamily.org/gpartedlive/ , D/L the 1st ISO on the list , you can boot to this cd) to make any adjustments you want. But be sure you know exactly what you are changing, and watch the " flags" section. Change as little as possible when deleting a partition. The EXT3 partition is what Linux/Ubuntu (formated on Ubuntu installation as) uses as well as a swap, ans possibly a combination of others as well. But not sure why they weren't deleted during uninstall. yes i mean that it was preinstalled. And yes i've heard of gparted and already downlaoded it, i'm gonna try it out when i get back from class when i have more time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vern Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 GParted will probably solve the problem, If it doesn't, I'll give you a step by step walkthrough on fixing the MBR ( master boot record ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted February 28, 2008 Author CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 GParted will probably solve the problem, If it doesn't, I'll give you a step by step walkthrough on fixing the MBR ( master boot record ). ok i'm still going to try gparted, but so u know what i was talking about dealing with OEM hard drives, i read this article below and tried the windows utility diskpart yesterday which said something along the line of "can't delete partition that is non-empry". look here... http://www.winvistaclub.com/t11.html I also browsed the web and found numerous people having the same problem all who seemed to have dells and one who even had the same dell vostro 1500 i have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted February 28, 2008 Author CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 GParted worked!!! Thanks so much for the support. I'm always messing with my computer and doing things but things like this come with the territory and through these troubleshooting i get better with computers and increase my computer knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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