problem converting to ext3 file system

[Ahmad Abou el-naga]

the error says: Unable to find a medium containing a live file system >> recently I have created an unformatted drive of about 29 Gb what next?

> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:31:10 +0100
> Subject: Re: problem converting to ext3 file system
> From: arnaud.bourree at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You cannot convert NTFS to ext3 partition.
> You can delete your NTFS partition and then create ext3 partition
> If you want to keep data from NTFS partition, then you need space for
> new ext3 partition in order to copy under Linux data from NTFS to ext3
> and then delete NTFS partition.
> 
> During Kubuntu installation, what is the error message?
> 
> Arnaud.
> 
> 2010/2/9 Ahmad Abou el-naga <champion_2010 at hotmail.com>:
> > hello all,
> > I want to convert from NTFS to ext3 to be able to install Kubuntu and make
> > it work. I have installed it through Wubi on a separate NTFS drive and it
> > when I try to install it from the Kubuntu on NTFS( the one installed through
> > wubi) it says: "no root file system defined"..I have made about 512 mb's
> > unalocated space to be swap and just want to format the NTFS drive as ext3
> > to install Kubuntu on this separate drive (its about 28.5 GB's) and when I
> > try to install Kubuntu through booting from cd its after choosing the
> > language ,>>install Kubunto >> then the first page installing after
> > "Kubuntu" sign it makes an error before starting the setup
> > what can i do?
> >
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