JH2688 Posted April 26, 2008 CID Share Posted April 26, 2008 How do i create a partition in my hardrive so i can put linux on that? i just want to mess around with it. i have a 300 gig harddrive so if i create like a 100 gig for it, that will be more than enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 26, 2008 CID Share Posted April 26, 2008 How do i create a partition in my hardrive so i can put linux on that? i just want to mess around with it. i have a 300 gig harddrive so if i create like a 100 gig for it, that will be more than enough. Depends on the distro you want to install, but in general, at the beginning of the Linux installation, they will ask how you would like to install. Choose use largest free space. Use grub for the boot loader, and you'll be fine. Many live cd versions have a partitioning tool on them. Make sure you have your data backed up if you are not familiar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH2688 Posted April 26, 2008 Author CID Share Posted April 26, 2008 When i put the linux cd in says i can do a full installation alongside windows or as the only operating system. so im assuming if a install it alongside windows it will create its own partition for it. Am i right? There also an option to install inside of windows, but the disk performace is slighty reduced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH2688 Posted April 26, 2008 Author CID Share Posted April 26, 2008 back to how to create a partition. i did some research and it says to go to disk manament window and right click on the unallocated space and then click on new partition. heres the problem i cannot find the unallocated space. heres what my window looks like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 26, 2008 CID Share Posted April 26, 2008 You said you had a 300 gig hdd, s you will have to resize the windows partition. Use <a href=http://gparted.sourceforge.net/">Gparted</a>, a live partitioning tool to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vern Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I would recommend running the disk defragmenter before using gparted to repartion the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I just got done getting my shit back online. I tried to do what you are and ended using Boot & Nuke to clean everything off the HDD and reformat. I went from using 58gigs of space down to 10 gigs. But every thing is great now! So be sure to backup or be sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I just got done getting my shit back online. I tried to do what you are and ended using Boot & Nuke to clean everything off the HDD and reformat. I went from using 58gigs of space down to 10 gigs. But every thing is great now! So be sure to backup or be sorry. What the hell did you do? Then again, I suppose if you knew, it would not have happened. BTW, be very careful using that boot and nuke, there are some bad things on some of those . I hope it wasn't " dereks " boot and nuke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 It was Darik's Boot and Nuke "dban" worked great for me. ISOed to a CD changed my boot order an all went well. http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 eeek. If you have your system up , along w/ antivirus and all that, put it in the drive, and scan it for bad shit, see what ya get. lemmie know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 Its running better now than it ever has. Edit: Scan Picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0stbound Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I would say defragment, use Gparted, and make sure you put the other partition on the other end pf the HD, just to be on the safe side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH2688 Posted April 27, 2008 Author CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 thx for the tips. im having trouble backing up my files. so when i go to the backuip file tool i cannot get it to save onto a cd. it says i need a floppy disk. Im i doing this wrong or what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0stbound Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 thx for the tips. im having trouble backing up my files. so when i go to the backuip file tool i cannot get it to save onto a cd. it says i need a floppy disk. Im i doing this wrong or what. I never messed with that back up utility. Just burned all my files to CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I use Nero and burn my stuff to DVD;s because you can ruffly get 4.5 GB of info on one disk. Just burn a bootable data disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH2688 Posted April 27, 2008 Author CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 i just cannot get anything to work the way i want it to. i cannot get the gparted to run. it will boot windows right away and doesnt do anything with the cd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 i just cannot get anything to work the way i want it to. i cannot get the gparted to run. it will boot windows right away and doesnt do anything with the cd Gparted is made to boot off of, if you cannot boot to it, maybe the burn went sour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH2688 Posted April 27, 2008 Author CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 i burned it again and still get the same problem. but this time it took 2 tries to start windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 i burned it again and still get the same problem. but this time it took 2 tries to start windows I just want to understand. Are you trying to boot to the cd, or run gparted in windows? Because gparted can only be run from the cd, and you must boot to cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I also had trouble booting Gparted when I was dual booting linux. I find another program called Cute Partition Manager that worked for me. It free also. http://www.cutepm.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 I also had trouble booting Gparted when I was dual booting linux. I find another program called Cute Partition Manager that worked for me. It free also. Thats strange since you boot to the cd before anything else happens. It's decided just after post when no OS is running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 It would boot to the CD ,but the program would not work right. I also had trouble running Kubuntu on that computer so I ended up removing it. Probably a hardware compatibility problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH2688 Posted April 27, 2008 Author CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 im trying to boot gparted to the cd. it just boot windows right away. i also had this problem when i put in my linux cd. it did not boot linux like it should of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 im trying to boot gparted to the cd. it just boot windows right away. i also had this problem when i put in my linux cd. it did not boot linux like it should of. Set the cd in the bios to boot first device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted April 27, 2008 CID Share Posted April 27, 2008 You did change the booting priority from the harddrive to the CD player in the BIOS? Edit - Late again. I got to learn to type faster to keep up around here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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