Partitioning a HD

[Winton Vandepeer]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM, UNGER, JOHN WM <JWU001 at shsu.edu> wrote:
> I went to load Ubuntu 8.04.3 today for my daughter-in-law. First tried to establish a partition for Windows as well, got a "no room" error and decided to just make one partition & put Ubuntu on it, could repartition later if she wanted. She came in & said she wanted the two partitions, so I tried to back up on the install and repartition. Now the boot disk doesn't find the HD at all - I cannot establish a partition in it.
>
> I've tried rebooting, coming at it from different paths, etc to no avail. Once - in the series of reboots - it gave me the entire disk and then when I went to partition it lost it all again.
>
> Weird. Any hints ideas?
>

Hi John,
you could try putting the Ubuntu install cd in and start the install
again. When you get to partitioning,
amd make the file system ntsc or fat 32 and format it. Windows cannot
read an ext3 partition.
Hope this helps
Take Care
Winton