Dear Tongqing, can you send us the partition table, please? It's new to me that DELL use more than the Dell Utility Partition, but in case they do, I guess you don't need them - I would just delete them.
Tim On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:38:05AM -0400, Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to set up a dual boot system on a new Dell laptop factory > installed with 64-bit Windows 7 professional. > > Model: Dell Latitude E6410 > OS: Windows 7 Professional > MEM: 8G > CPU: Corei7 > HD: 500GB > > I first shrank the HD with Win7 to give ~250GB space to the new OS, I then > installed from DVD, so far, I tested Red Hat 5 workstation, Fedora 13, Ubantu > 10, all of them complained that I don't have enough space to put > partition.....Further googling found out that DELL had put some hidden > partitions (Dell Utility, Recovery, and a partition named READER) on the HD > and there is a limit to 4 primary partitions. > > Did anyone have any success? > > Thanks, > > > Tongqing > > Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. > Staff Scientist > Structural Biology Section > Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH > Building 40, Room 4607B > 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 > Bethesda, MD 20892 > (301) 594-8710 (Tel) > (301) 793-0794 (Cell) > (301) 480-2658 (Fax) > ****************************************************************** > The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and > may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not > the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error > please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage > devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not > accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not > expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. > ****************************************************************** > -- -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
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