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Asked by ray hughes

when installing ubuntu 11.1 on a win 7 laptop (dell) the partioner will not no anything to the win partition ,you cant even do a check on it ,it just flags up an error

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you chkdsk the partition so you know the NTFS is healthy.
I also suggest you resize the NTFS partition within Windows and install to the free space.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

you probably have the professional or ulitmate version. those attempt to prevent tampering by virii.
you'll have to repartition with windoze then install ubuntu.

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ray hughes (raymond-hughes72) said : 		#3

does win 7 have a patitioner built in to resise the partition

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Yes Win7 can resize it's own partitions. Make sure your backups are up to date before you start, in case of catastrophe

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ray hughes (raymond-hughes72) said : 		#5

thanks for that ,i have not tried the solution to date ,but now i know the problem and fixes i hope to use it for future occurencies when using win 7