<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I bought a new laptop and I'm trying to install Ubuntu on it. The firs time around, I ended up destroying the Windows installation (which I did not want to do). The second time I went in and looked for the "side by side" option for installing from the live CD. It wasn't there. So, I decided to try GParted. I shrank the nearly 475 gigs dedicated to Windows in half. After that, I am left with 235 gigs of unallocated space. The Ubuntu installer will neither format nor install to that space. Gparted won't format it either. So, from where I am now, there is nothing I can do with that space either with the Ubuntu installer or GParted. The "Format to" option is just grayed out in GParted. I don't remember my last install being this hard.<br>
<br>This is a Windows 7, 64 bit laptop.<br></font>