hp notebook: primary partition

[Bill2]

Please dont post intermediate snapshots, its very confusing. Can you right click on the System partition and mark it Active?

 

[amankedia92]

I'm so sorry sir...
Yes sir, i'm done with all that, and my windows is now booting perfectly...
Thanx a lot...

 

[Bill2]

OK good. Do you want to do anything more or are you done for today?

 

[amankedia92]

Sir, actually i want to run Ubuntu in my system as an additional OS, for which i need a separate partition...
How do i create it?
I apologize if i sound foolish...

 

[Bill2]

No theres nothing foolish but first you need to clean up that partitioning mess on your computer. Greg's already given you instructions, just backup your data to an external drive and follow the instructions correctly.

 

[amankedia92]

What Greg asked me to do is this:
"Move the data off the extra partitions you created and delete them"
Does it mean i have to delete all the partitions except the System, c:, recovery and HP Tools???
and i delete them using PW or simply disk mgmt.?

 

[Bill2]

Exactly, MOVE the data to a safe location such as an external hard disk from where it can be restored later. After that, delete all the partitions except System, C: , Recovery and HP tools. You can delete them in disk management itself.

 

[amankedia92]

What do i do next?

 

[Bill2]

Lets see a snip of your disk management window now.

 

[amankedia92]

Here's the snip:



Now what next?

 

[gregrocker]

Why did you convert D and Tools to Logical when the steps given said to convert C, so that you have the flexibility to later add data partitions to the right of C?

Your Recovery will not run as a Logical partition since it can't be marked Active to boot with the F11 hotkey.

Boot PW CD, rightclick Recovery to Modify>Convert to primary, click OK.

Then rightclick C to Resize to the right into Free space, which normally belongs to Logical but will work for Primary as well in PW versions 5.2 and higher, click OK, Apply steps.

Later try running your HP diagnostics to see if HP tools will run as a Logical partition. If not, convert C to Logical as originally instructed, then convert HP Tools to Primary.

 

[amankedia92]

Sir, while re-sizing i missed to put my laptop on charging, due to which it automatically went down, and the progress at the time of shut down was 89%...
After re-booting, i'm getting an error message while trying to re-size C: ...

Please help...

 

[karlsnooks]

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[amankedia92]

What do you want me to do Karl?

 

[karlsnooks]

Use the Snipping tool to make your snapshots.

The snipping tool will produce a .png file by default which then you can post.

The snipping tool output is easy to read.

 

[amankedia92]

But sir, while i'm booting from the PW CD, how can i use the snipping tool?

 

[karlsnooks]

My mistake, I thought by rebooting you were referring to rebooting into your Windows 7.

 

[karlsnooks]

Have you followed the instructions given in your display to "Check File System"

 

[amankedia92]

That option isn't coming...
And, right now, my windows is also not booting and performing a startup repair for the past 2 hrs...

 

[karlsnooks]

How did you initiate the Startup Repair?

Looking back at the time of posts of different posts, then I'm having trouble with the "past 2 hours".

Is Startup Repair running at this very minute?