[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Brian Pitts]

On 09/25/2010 09:58 AM, Jim Philips wrote:
> 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.

You can't format it until you create a partition in it. Can you do that?

Can you post the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' ?

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All the best,
Brian Pitts