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Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Cant partition hard drive :S

Ok - trying to load arch onto my main hard drive.  It is 160gb and have made a partition by right clicking on 'my computer' ->manage and shrinking my drive to 123gb and having a new ntfs volume or 25gb.

Thing is, when I boot from the arch cd and go to partition hard drive, the only one I can select is the entire 160gb. When I select that I get an error message too so cant even format my whole disk (even though I dont want to).

Any ideas on what I should do?

Bob-Hur

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 43

Re: Cant partition hard drive :S

When you made the new ntfs volume, did you specify for it to be a primary partition?

Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant partition hard drive :S

Yea, the disk management screen looks like

(c:)
123.84gb NTFS
Healthy (System,boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary partition

new volume (f:)
25.21gb
healthy(primary partition

Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant partition hard drive :S

Ok, tried again, I go into the manual partition and the only drive is size 1600000, I get to choose a partition /dev/sda1 I think and then it give me:

Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder :S