Help!!

[Silent Warrior]

how do i do a dual boot on my lappy with 7.04. the partition manager has changed....

[Khaos]

I'm going to guess you need a new partition table, preserving the NTFS partition in it (that was poor labeling on their part). Play around; I'm pretty sure Ubuntu gives you 20 warnings before actually changing anything.

I don't do Ubuntu though. *singsong voice* Oh Garf!

[Fillibuster]

You could run GParted Live CD, that looks more like the partitioner from 6.10...

[Garfunkel]

They have changed the partitioner, supposedly to make it easier, yet it was a very bad move IMO, most are used to gparted and IMO it is easier then the junk they put in it's place.

OK, to do this, you will have to rely on my memory: right click the ntfs partition and click resize, you should be able to make it larger by about 8MB, this is to get rid of that 8MB partition, that is not enough for ubuntu.

When that is done, you should only have one partition, and it should be the ntfs one.

now what you should do is boot into windows and run defragmenter, this will move all data to the front of the drive, making partitioning a partition for ubuntu much safer.

when this is done, please respond.

[Silent Warrior]

well i cant install this damn thing anyway. cause i found out with 6.10 that i have 2 bad sectors on my hd and i ran chkdsk/f/r in windows and it went to checkdisk and it still wont install cause of my bad sectors. guess i need to get a new hd.

[Garfunkel]

run the livecd and open up a terminal and use fsck

[Khaos]

bad sectors shouldn't be a problem. The file system will mark them, get this, 'bad' and won't use them. The problem is when a file is on a sector and it goes bad. chkdsk should tell you which files are affected, and all you can do is delete them usually (if chkdsk or fsck can't fix them).

Oh and.. fsck (looks at sig)

[Garfunkel]

fsck you!

You know what, i agree with almost everything linus says, we are very similar people. Only...he's the more successful one.