2009/2/27 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com>: > 2009/2/27 Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/2/26 Joseph Walton-Rivers <webpig...@googlemail.com>: >>> if you install gparted, you will be able to see where each partition is, and >>> you'll be able to remove any partition you wish, it will appear under >>> system->administration->Partition editor >> >> >> He wants to install Ubuntu. To do this, he wants to get rid of his D: >> partition. Until he does that, he can't install Parted, so that >> suggestion is really not much help, is it? >> > > Steady on there Liam. Keep off the grumpy pills. > > It's a valid suggestion. Gparted can be installed onto a running live > cd (as can any other app if you have enough ram to hold it) and then > the disk can be partitioned at will. This is assuming it's not already > installed on the Live CD.
But it is already there - that's my point! And I was actually seriously trying to be polite and constructive! > It's not hard at all. You click each drive in turn and the one with > the partition type NTFS is likely to be the one. In addition he has > (as I understand) a C: with Windows installed and an empty (formatted > NTFS) D:. In gparted the C: drive will show up as being partially full > up whereas the D: will be empty. But it won't tell you drive letters or let you move stuff between the two, which Windows itself will... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: liamproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
