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Acer Recovery DVD Won't Create 100MB System Reserved Partition
Greetings,
When I first purchased my Acer AspireOne D255 back in 2010, I immediately deleted Windows 7 Starter and installed a dual-boot of XP Home and Ubuntu. However, recently I decided that I want Windows 7 back on the Netbook, so I ordered Recovery DVDs from Acer.
I would like to set up an encrypted dual boot between Windows 7 Starter & Kubuntu 12.04. I found a great tutorial online explaining how to do this:
[not sure if I'm allowed to post links to other sites]http:// stonesifer.org/2011/07/01/dual-boot-windows-7-encrypted-with-ubuntu-1104-encrypted/
Problem is that the tutorial won't work for me because I don't have the 100 MB System Reserved Partition. I want to follow this particular tutorial because it's very simple, and it ensures that if I switch to a different Distro later I won't have to reinstall Windows 7.
Now I did successfully follow the "Option One" instruction here to use Disk Management to create a System Partition:
System Reserved : Create Using Disk Management
All this accomplished however is creating a small partition that is not active, and certainly not at the front of the disk, and definitely not set as a System Partition.
Please help! I've spent way too many hours / days at this trying to figure this out on my own.
Edit: I have been using the "Disk Utility" in a Lubuntu 12.04 LiveCD to partition the drive...