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I have to say that this thread has been the most enlightening especially from a support standpoint. That's one thing I love about playing in this sandbox! <BR>
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Please let us know how it goes for the installation will ya Jim? I'm sure all will go well in the end! What's most interesting is that HP seems to have made the decision for you that you'll not be installing an OS in tandem. That (in some ways) says certain things about HP (not good IMHO) and especially forces the typical end-user into a Windows only mode of thinking even more. <BR>
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Great call on suggesting to look at the number of primary partitions Tim! I had already thought about it but assumed this was a known factor already thus said nothing about it...again...very enlightening from a support standpoint! ---R<BR>
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<B>From</B>: Jim Kinney <<A HREF="mailto:Jim%20Kinney%20%3cjim.kinney@gmail.com%3e">jim.kinney@gmail.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes!%20We%20run%20Linux!%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:22:55 -0400<BR>
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It came with windows. why would anyone want anything different? us corporate types took your money and sold you what we wanted to you to buy. it worked just fine. if it doesn't then you need to spend more money with us to make it even better.<BR>
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In general, it's a good idea to plan on blowing away the "restore" partition for any dual-boot setup. It can't be used to "restore functionality" to the machine anyway. Make a restore disk set instead so you have original winders garbage and the extra bloatware it shipped with parked elsewhere. Then _you_ have control of the drive structure..<BR>
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Tim Watts <<A HREF="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</A>> wrote:<BR>
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Idiots! That's a bit like selling a car with non-reversible lug nuts.
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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 07:17 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:<BR>
> That's my problem. HP, in its wisdom, decided that the disk needed<BR>
> four primary partitions to do all of the crap they find necessary.<BR>
> Aside from the main partition, I have Tools, System and Recovery. I'm<BR>
> about ready to create a recovery disk and just kill the Recovery<BR>
> partition.<BR>
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> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Watts <<A HREF="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</A>><BR>
> wrote:<BR>
> How many primary partitions are currently on the disk? You can<BR>
> only have<BR>
> 4 primary partitions on a disk.<BR>
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> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 21:03 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:<BR>
> > I can't create a partition in that space either. Fedora says<BR>
> there is<BR>
> > no space (always shows it as 0 megabytes). Ubuntu also<BR>
> refuses to<BR>
> > allow me to do anything with the space, flagging it as<BR>
> "unusable".<BR>
> > I've been installing Linux off and on for fifteen years.<BR>
> This is just<BR>
> > something I haven't encountered before.<BR>
> ><BR>
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Brian Pitts<BR>
> <<A HREF="mailto:brian@polibyte.com">brian@polibyte.com</A>><BR>
> > wrote:<BR>
> > On 09/25/2010 09:00 PM, Jim Philips wrote:<BR>
> > > Let me get this straight: Are you saying Ubuntu<BR>
> installed to<BR>
> > unallocated<BR>
> > > space without formatting? I couldn't install,<BR>
> because<BR>
> > GParted refused to<BR>
> > > format that space.<BR>
> ><BR>
> ><BR>
> > Again, you can't format unallocated space. You have<BR>
> to create<BR>
> > a<BR>
> > partition, then format the partition. Can you create<BR>
> a new<BR>
> > partition? If<BR>
> > not, how many partitions are there already?<BR>
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