On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:36:15 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote: > Got a problem here, I have a laptop with pre-installed windows, the > partition scheme is more-or-less like this: > > - 100M partition (hidden) - seems like a Windows-helper partition (I > read something about it, forgotten now) > - ~960 GB Windows partition > - ~20GB Recovery partion > - ~10M another part of recovery partition > > When I tried to install debian, > What I did was shrinking the 960GB partition to ~900GB, then I thought I > could have ~60GB for linux. > > But then it said the free space is unusable, I cant do any partitioning > on it. > > Anyone familiar with this problem? Is this something to do about the > partition table can't handle large disk size issue?
Before anything, boot into windows and run "scan disk" and "defrag" for the windows partition and make a backup copy for the whole disk (if you - additionally- have a recovery image for the windows install it would be perfect). Then, use an updated LiveCD version of Gparted and do the resizing and partitioning/formatting from there. After that, proceed as usual with Debian installer. This will hopefully minimize the problematic. > Any help and pointers are appreciated. > > Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to debian-user > currently. Sorry, I can't ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jgp1bf$un9$1...@dough.gmane.org
