how install win w/o wiping the disk

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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 July 2012 06:31:37 G. did opine:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:13 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:44 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> >>> On 13 July 2012 17:23, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> I had forgotten that it is formatted GPT.  That may well be an
>> >>>> issue.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yup - that's the origin of the whole problem.
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>
>> >>> Liam Proven • Profile:
>> >> Looks like the GPT issue is still with me after wiping the disk and
>> >> installing W7.  See  http://paste.ubuntu.com/1091028/
>> >>
>> >> When I install Ubuntu 12 the partitioner does not see the windows
>> >> partition. I ran chkdsk/f and the disk seems fine and Ubuntu works
>> >> fine from the usb stick.
>> >>
>> >> Before I installed windows I reformatted the entire hard disk with
>> >> gparted.  That apparently did not eliminate the GPT partition.
>> >>
>> >> I appreciate your assistance.
>> >>
>> >> garyk
>> >
>> > In Nautilus I can see a 1.1 gig entry.  When I try to mount it I get
>> > "could not find /cow"  Also when I boot to install ubuntu there is an
>> > entry besides the atachi hard drive.  I suppose this the GPT causing
>> > the problem.
>> >
>> > garyk
>>
>> Perhaps I have found the problem.  WHen I formatted the disk with
>> gparted I did not make a partition table.  Instructions I found on a
>> windows site
>> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_inst
>> all/windows-cannot-be-installed-on-this-disk-thryke/8fa72a3e-10c5-47da-a
>> 040-1e0db62af309
>>
>>
>> If the Windows install disk doesn’t work for the above you can do the
>> following to reformat your drive:
>>
>> 1. Download and burn a Gparted ISO from here:
>> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ 2. Boot from the Gparted disk.
>> 3. Use Gparted to delete all partitions on the hard drive.
>> 4. Under “Device” choose Create Partition Table to make a new partition
>> table. THIS IS THE STEP I DID NOT EXECUTE
>> 5. Create a NTFS partition (or you could wait and create a partition
>> when installing Windows).
>> 6. Then boot from the Windows install disk and install Windows.
>>
>> Could this be it?  Would step 4 eliminate the GPT?
>>
>> garyk
>
> I hesitate to make a recommendation since doing a google for GPT Disk and
> finding some background on it.
>
> 1.  It seems to be the "next generation" standard for partition table
> formatting, eradicating many of the current MBR format limitations, like
> size of a given partition, and the maximum number of partitions on a given
> disk.  And with its maintenance of multiple copies of its partition
> database, it has the potential to be self healing, like when we are forced
> to us an alternate inode table when e2fscking an extN partition.  From my
> reading just now, it has been around for a while but disk sizes are just
> now approaching the limits of the MBR format in terms of partition sizes.
>
> Because our tools do not yet appear to fully understand this new method,
> they may also contain the seeds of its destruction by reformatting a piece
> of the disk that did contain the GPT's backup data tables.
>
> Food for thought folks, while our tools, like gparted, play catchup with
> this new method.
>
> First question then is:  How big is this disk?
>
> Cheers, Gene
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It's around 230 gigs.

garyk