my computer won't let me shrink the volume so that I can install Ubuntu to dual boot with xp. What's wrong?
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XP doesnt support shrinking via disk management.
Fire up the Ubuntu installer, you can resize current partitions from there when you get to the partitioning stage.
ok i'll try that
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ok I Have the ubuntu installer going on my computer i'm trying to install it on, and whenever I try to partition my drive it pops up with an error: resize operation failure, aborted.
What I tried to do is edit my main partition, to shrink it so that I could make an ubuntu partition
it's dev/sda1 file system ntfs if that helps
Open up windows right click on the drive and tell it to run checkdisc next time you boot.
I had a drive that refused to be resized until I did this. If Gparted finds any ntfs errors it will abort the operation. typically it is cyclinders miscounts and etc...
Also you cannot resize an actively mounted partition. I would suggest EASEUS Partition manager if you are trying to do the resize from within windows.
**btw what is your background in windows? I like it**
I used easeus partition manager and it screwed up my computer, which I started another thread on. man.
now I get this stuff about hal.dll is corrupt or missing please re-install it.
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