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problem with resizing harddrive to dual boot

Asked by Anthony

I am currenty trying to install fiesty from the alternate install cd and it works fine up to the point where it asks to resize the current partition (I only have one partition a ntfs with windows xp on it). I have tried to both automatically resizing and installing and manually resizing the partition. Both ways I get the same error message that the dive cannot resize for an unknown reason. Any advice?? I also have tried using the system restore cd to partition but it crashes the screen when I type in xstart.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Most probably you have set a BIOS option that disable writing the partition table. Sometime they are called with names like 'boot sector antivirus' and the like.

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Anthony (dashren) said : 		#2

any way for me to disable/change this setting??

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PeterDurrill (sunergos) said : 		#3

That would depend on what type of computer you have. Do you know the name of the company that manufactured your motherboard, or the computer itself?

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Anthony (dashren) said : 		#4

I have a dell inspiron 5150 laptop. So does that help?

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PeterDurrill (sunergos) said : 		#5

You press f2 when the computer is first starting up to get into the bios for that model, but I don't remember it having any bootsector locking ability. I could be wrong. So, before you do that, try booting into windows and running both chkdsk and defrag on your drive, then attempt to resize again.

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Anthony (dashren) said : 		#6

is there any way to run the gparted off of the system restore cd in a non GUI interface? I just would like to try that approach too. I alrealy defragged twice too.

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PeterDurrill (sunergos) said : 		#7

I don't believe that it can run in a non-gui interface, no, but you should be able to boot off of the live cd and run it from there. You mentioned defragmenting, but have you run checkdisk? Any problems in the consistency could cause fatal filesystem errors if the installer attempted to resize the volume.

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