partitions

i have an acer aspire 4520. I had installed ubuntu 8.04 around four months back and at the beginning of this month upgraded to 8.1 over the internet. But from then onwards my hard-disk had started underperforming, and today, i just cant boot into windows. Windows has become so slow, explorer...

hi friends, i recently installed ubuntu 8.04 but there is a problem that i cannot mount the windows ntfs partitions ie my windows drive ,songs and video drives etc.in winwods before installation i made 2 partitions ,one of size 4gb for swap amd other 20gb for root and installed ubuntu.now when i...

hi guys, i just bought a new WD 320GB hdd. i've installed it as a slave HDD. I want to know how to format and partition it into 4 equal partitions.! thanks.!

i had an 80gb hdd with two partitions- a 15gb partition with win xp sp2 & a 3ogb data partition & the rest free space..i installed ubuntu 8.10 in the free space with 4608mb for swap 8092mb for / & the rest for /home..the installation completed successfully & the system restarted..i went into...

I have an 80gb hdd.it has 2 partitions- a 15gb with xp pro sp2 installed & a 31gb with data partition.In the remaining free space i installed open suse 11.0 & then decided to install ubuntu.So i used the ubuntu installation disk & in the partition setup used the already existing suse...

I was a regular XP user and following the purchase of a Dell lap I am using Vista now. I did a fresh installation of Vista and was sorting partitions and came to understand that not more than 3 partitions werent allowed by Vista. (or is that an error?) Secondly I have an unpartitioned space...

Please take a look at the image. My disk 0 is a 60 gb hard drive. Apart from the partitions having drive letters, only 10 gb should have been free/unpartitioned space. My disk 1 is a 160 gb hard drive. It should have had only about 13 gb unpartitioned space. Is it a problem with partition...

Hello Kindly help me with these 2 problems. I was trying to make 5 partitions of my 250 GB HDD. Vista Home Premium is my OS on my Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop. I am not able to make more than 3 partitions while installing the OS. There is one 70MB partition already there for which I am not getting...

i was getting a message -"Windows is shutting down the system due to an error ouccered in the BIOS.This error may be due to improper installation of hardware or software." and the system restarts in 100 seconds.I could operate windows only in safe mode. The next day i formatted and installed...

I have a system running Windows XP. There are four partitions C:\ (System Partition) D:\ (Contains Documents) E:\ (Contains Documents) ie. C:\ , D:\ & E:\ are partitions in HDD 0 F:\ (Separate Internal Hard Disk on SATA) => HDD 1 XP is giving me problems, so I bought a new OS -...

guys i have kubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and would like to upgrade it to ubuntu 8.10. is there any way to do that without disturbing my partitions?

i have an 80gb(usable 74.6gb) IDE hdd..it already had windows xp installed on a 15gb partition. it also had a 31gb partition & the rest was free unpartitioned space.i tried to install opensuse 11.0(following nucleuskore's brilliant tutorial) & when i came to the point where i had to create the...

Hi, One of my friend has a Dell Inspiron laptop. He had the following partitions C,D,E,F with some valuable data in other partitions except C. Recently he faced a problem with media direct buttons in the laptop and its relative driver dlls, which corrupted the OS stability. He reinstalled...

Hello digitians, I am in search of a good decent laptop for myself. But i am confused between HP and Dell. I can't make up my mind as which one to buy. Also i am not very familiar with Laptop configurations so some help would be great. Usage - Basic computing, Multimedia and occasional...

Hi, I had a 80GB Seagate HDD.....It is 3 years old....Now I had 3 partitions on it.. Recently I've seen that every partitions has some bad sectors... Every time I boot to windows it checks the partitions and removes some entries.But fails to complete the process. In windows if I try to...

Hi, I just purchased a new Seagate 500gb harddisk. Ive made it into 4 partitions during the win xp installer. I tried a quick format....it jumped to 20% in like 4-5 seconds and got stuck for 15+ mins, i got annoyed reset my pc, deleted all partitions, and tried again with a new 20gb partition...

Friends help me out. Yesterday while booting up my PC, it was very slow and showed me the option viz Start normally, safe mode etc. I tried all options but it works fine till the log-in to windows page. After that it restarted automatically and repeated this. So after trying everything, I...

Hi All, I have noticed a pretty weird behavior wrt my hard disk. I have 5 partitions on a 160 GB HDD. My C: drive tends to get fragmented very quickly (sometimes in just 2 days). I use O&O Defrag and whenever i analyse the disk the fragmentation level comes upto atleast 15 -16%. The C: drive...

hello thank you very much for this forum i get a big problem with my laptop nc6320 it was under xp when i baught it but know i'm under linux so i have formated all the partitions in order to install ubuntu but now want to install windows when i boot with the cd it says that windows didn't...

bought a sony vaio and its preloaded with vista home premium... i want to install linux on it.. can anyone tell me how can i create other partitions and can install windows in a different partition ?