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prepare hard drive partition bedore installing ubuntu

Asked by UnderOath

I was installing Ubuntu to an older laptop but while installing on the second partition I made, the laptop shut off. When I tryed to reinstall Ubuntu it said something about needing to go to the partition menu to fix a problem. I cannot seem to do that so I figured the best way to fix this would be to get rid of this partition and redo the whole thing. So could some one please help me to uninstall what has been installed. Thank you

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Best Mohamed Zaian (mzaian) said : 		#1

try to boot with ubuntu live cd so you will use gparted to fix your laptop partitions it is a god tool, open Terminal then type $sudo gparted , gparted will open now you can manage your laptop partitions if there is any errors gparted can check and solve those problems.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Yes, i agree. try booting up from the Cd, just put the Cd in the tray and switch the machine off and on again. this should take you to a menu, choose "Try Ubuntu without installing anything" this should get to working desktop, we call this a LiveCd session. If you have troubles here's a guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

At the desktop click on the top taskbar

System - Administration - Partition Editor

this should open GPartEd in Ubuntu or QtPartEd in Kubuntu ut Kubutu is iikely to be too heavy for this type of machine.

Please let us know your Cpu speed and Ram size. Ubuntu needs about 8Gb but is much better with more. About 15Gb gives it plenty of room. My Cpu is 1.8GHz and 2Gb ram, so i'm a long way over min.spec on this machine. I also have a PII, 350MHz machine with 512Mb ram, plenty of ram but not enough Hz so i run Wolvix on that one.

Hope this helps
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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UnderOath (iskateelement) said : 		#3

Thanks Mohamed Zaian, that solved my question.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Brilliant, nicely done and congrats on fixing that! :)
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)