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Topic: Trying to partition a new drive. Running into problems

Hi I'm new to partitioning and have an Ubuntu 14.04 with about 300gb. about 250gb is unused and I want to take 150gb and install windows 7 on it. The unused space is already inside a partition so I want to resize it to get it out. According to what other people have asked on this forum it said that I had to resize fat32 first before I can resize anything anything else, but when I try to resize fat32 gparted immediately closes.

Am I missing any steps or doing anything wrong?

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Re: Trying to partition a new drive. Running into problems

Before repartitioning the drive I highly recommend backing up your data in case anything goes wrong.

For the steps to move unused space from one partition to another see Moving Space Between Partitions.

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Re: Trying to partition a new drive. Running into problems

@gedakc

After following the instructions you gave me GParted came up with this error

GParted 0.24.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 2.3

Move /dev/sda4 to the right and shrink it from 274.92 GiB to 157.73 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sda4 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sda4 (partition) start: 48590848 end: 625141759 size: 576550912 (274.92 GiB) check file system on /dev/sda4 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00 ( ERROR )

e2fsck -f -y -v -C 0 /dev/sda4 00:00:00 ( ERROR )

/dev/sda4 is mounted. e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.

Also heres a picture of what GParted looks like on my laptop. http://imgur.com/z86H8QP

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Re: Trying to partition a new drive. Running into problems

It sounds like a problem with automounting file systems while GParted is running.

You might try booting from media containing GParted Live to perform the actions.  GParted Live will not automount partitions.