Chetan1991
Youngling
I've screwed up my laptop . Please help.
When I bought my dell inspiron 1564, its hard disk came pre formatted in following setup:
part.(ition) 0 100 mb boot, part. 1 30 gb empty, part. 2 30 gb empty n part. 3 240 gb empty.
I also have an old P4 machine running xp. On it I had could partition the hdd any way, no hassle of primary or extended partitions.
No such luck with the laptop. It wont let me create more than 3 partitions (apart from the boot one which i'm not sure is safe enough to be deleted or not).
Whenever i try to make more than 3 part.s, the win 7 setup says i can't make more than 4 primary part.s , but it wont even create any extended part., instead when you click on extend, it just , well extends the size of selected part.n
This thing bugged me so much that I fiddled with Disk Management utility of win 7. I had already shrunken the largest part.n to 200 gb. I made the unused space a "simple volume"(know nothing about it).
The utility said it would make all the part.s simple (there was something "dynamic" also there, can't remember).
Unfortunately I didn't marked any part.n active, supposing windows'll take care of that.
After a reeboot windows 7 isn't loading. I ran elive livecd and checked the hdd in GParted and it shows
Windows_c unknown file system 992 kib
Windows_d ntfs 100 mib
Windows_e ntffs 29.2 gib
Windows_f ntfs 268.8 gib
Earlier it showed (from my memory, so not everything might be true)
Windows_c ntfs boot 100 mib
Windows_d ntfs primary 30gib
windows_e ntfs primary 30gib
Windows_f ntfs primary 200 gib
unused space 39.5 gib
Now I dont know what to do. If it had been my older rig i would have simply wiped off whole of the hdd. but with that tiny 100 mb part.n idont know what'll happen if i delete it.
I also want to dual boot (windows 7 & linux distro) n keep atleast 2 other part.ns for other stuff. What am i to do??? Should i delete the tiny part.n?? (I think that part.n is called boot part.n. Thats wierd cos earlier the boot sec. Of active part.n did it all. Right?) HELP!!!!
When I bought my dell inspiron 1564, its hard disk came pre formatted in following setup:
part.(ition) 0 100 mb boot, part. 1 30 gb empty, part. 2 30 gb empty n part. 3 240 gb empty.
I also have an old P4 machine running xp. On it I had could partition the hdd any way, no hassle of primary or extended partitions.
No such luck with the laptop. It wont let me create more than 3 partitions (apart from the boot one which i'm not sure is safe enough to be deleted or not).
Whenever i try to make more than 3 part.s, the win 7 setup says i can't make more than 4 primary part.s , but it wont even create any extended part., instead when you click on extend, it just , well extends the size of selected part.n
This thing bugged me so much that I fiddled with Disk Management utility of win 7. I had already shrunken the largest part.n to 200 gb. I made the unused space a "simple volume"(know nothing about it).
The utility said it would make all the part.s simple (there was something "dynamic" also there, can't remember).
Unfortunately I didn't marked any part.n active, supposing windows'll take care of that.
After a reeboot windows 7 isn't loading. I ran elive livecd and checked the hdd in GParted and it shows
Windows_c unknown file system 992 kib
Windows_d ntfs 100 mib
Windows_e ntffs 29.2 gib
Windows_f ntfs 268.8 gib
Earlier it showed (from my memory, so not everything might be true)
Windows_c ntfs boot 100 mib
Windows_d ntfs primary 30gib
windows_e ntfs primary 30gib
Windows_f ntfs primary 200 gib
unused space 39.5 gib
Now I dont know what to do. If it had been my older rig i would have simply wiped off whole of the hdd. but with that tiny 100 mb part.n idont know what'll happen if i delete it.
I also want to dual boot (windows 7 & linux distro) n keep atleast 2 other part.ns for other stuff. What am i to do??? Should i delete the tiny part.n?? (I think that part.n is called boot part.n. Thats wierd cos earlier the boot sec. Of active part.n did it all. Right?) HELP!!!!
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