<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">That's my problem. HP, in its wisdom, decided that the disk needed four primary partitions to do all of the crap they find necessary. Aside from the main partition, I have Tools, System and Recovery. I'm about ready to create a recovery disk and just kill the Recovery partition.<br>
</font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Watts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
How many primary partitions are currently on the disk? You can 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 there is<br>
> no space (always shows it as 0 megabytes). Ubuntu also refuses to<br>
> allow me to do anything with the space, flagging it as "unusable".<br>
> I've been installing Linux off and on for fifteen years. This is just<br>
> something I haven't encountered before.<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Brian Pitts <<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 installed to<br>
> unallocated<br>
> > space without formatting? I couldn't install, because<br>
> GParted refused to<br>
> > format that space.<br>
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> Again, you can't format unallocated space. You have to create<br>
> a<br>
> partition, then format the partition. Can you create a new<br>
> partition? If<br>
> not, how many partitions are there already?<br>
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> --<br>
> All the best,<br>
> Brian Pitts<br>
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