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When I booted the disk and went to fdisk section,
pressed n to create a new partion, typed in 2 to create a second partion,
an error came up saying ...
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Fdisk Help
When I booted the disk and went to fdisk section,
pressed n to create a new partion, typed in 2 to create a second partion,
an error came up saying "You do not have enough space to add a new sector" (or something similar to that.)
I am running an Intel Core Solo Inside laptop thats currently running windows. It probly might have to do with all the partions have been used by windows (even though theres only 1...) and it probaly seems obviouse to all you but im new and confused
and by the way...it might have something to do with Xfree86 (or something like that) because they mentioned it on the intel website...but thats probaly not it.
Thanks in advance
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If you already have a partition taking all the space on the hard-drive you can't create a second partition until you free some space on that hard-drive. The way to free some space is to shrink the partition taking all the space.
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How?...sorry..lol im new
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fdisk is confusing coz of command line interface. try GParted. its Linux based partition manager and has Graphical interface. download .iso image, burn image to CD through Nero. you will get bootable CD... boot through it and do whatever you want....How?...sorry..lol im new
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...Its not that confusing...Its the error...Ive heard that fips works , i tried it, and
Originally Posted by devils_casper
my laptop gave me an error. and I dont know anyother one that is free and works in a SANE manner...
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It probly might have to do with all the partions have been used by windows (even though theres only 1...) and it probaly seems obviouse to all you but im new and confusedyou wrote that windows consumed all partitions or there is only when partition.....Its not that confusing...Its the error...Ive heard that fips works , i tried it, and
my laptop gave me an error. and I dont know anyother one that is free and works in a SANE manner...
if you know how fdisk works, then you should know that you can't resize/shrink existing partitions with fdisk. then why are you using fdisk ?????
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Thats Why Im tring to find another program. and Im using fdisk because it comes with it and I didnt say in there that I will not use anyother program. Originally Posted by devils_casper
p.s. Dont use that many question marks...lol
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thats why i suggested GParted.....Thats Why Im tring to find another program. and Im using fdisk because it comes with it and I didnt say in there that I will not use anyother program.
its my style of writing....... lolp.s. Dont use that many question marks...lol
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