On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 04:00:27 PM Mika Suomalainen wrote: > I think that GParted cannot do it. > > Arief M Utama <arief.ut...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 02/07/2012 12:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:36:15PM +0700, Arief M Utama wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> > >>> I thought I'm already a veteran user until I discovered I know > >>> almost nothing about this problem today :-D > >>> > >>> 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? > >> > >> I notice you have four partitions. Are they all primary partitions? > > > >If > > > >> so, this is your problem. > > > >Yess... you (and Mika) are right! > > > >Thanks guys, > >Been a while since I've met this problem. > > > >Now I have another problem, how to move all this partition (and turn > >some of them into extended partitions) without destroying them. Guess > >I'll need to rediscover dd. > > > >Anyone knows a better tool? Could GParted be used for this? > > > >Thanks a bunch for the quick help :-) > > > > > >All the best. > >-arief > > > >> The DOS-style partition layout can handle up to four primary > > > >partitions > > > >> or up to three primary partitions plus one Extended partition. An > >> Extended partition may contain any number of logical partitions. > >> > >> If you look at /dev/sda? from within linux and you get /dev/sda1-4, > > > >then > > > >> these are all primary partitions. If you have /dev/sda5 or above, > > > >then > > > >> you have an extended partition and so shouldn't have a problem with > >> this. > >> > >> If all your partitions ARE primary, you may have a problem. AFAIK, > >> Windows likes to boot from primary partitions. The recovery > > > >partitions > > > >> MAY or MAY NOT handle being moved to logical partitions. > >> > >>> Any help and pointers are appreciated. > >>> > >>> Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to debian-user > >>> currently. > > Mika Suomalainen > > > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 03D41B0D C0151D5C > > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8751C396
Hi, It is my understanding that the windows installation requires the entire 1TB disk. Even though windows itself only requires some 60 -70 GB of space. All primary partitions are used to set up this distro. I have a similar problem with my laptop. I have not been able to make windows sit in smaller partitions. (yet!!!) Gerald
