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Topic: Please help me out of this mess!

Hi all.

I have a Dell laptop with a 100GB HDD.
I would like to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu using the following partitions:
NTFS (roughly 18GB, for Windows)
EXT3 (roughly 65GB, this will be my /home and will also contain shared files, to share between XP and Ubuntu)
EXT3 (Roughly 10GB for all Ubuntu settings and files, etc.)
Linux Swap (Roughly 3GB)

The problem I have is very similar to this post: http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?pid=2978

Basically, my Dell laptop already came with 3 or 4 partition's, for MEDIADIRECT, backups, etc, etc. This has caused a lot of problems because I can't create more than 4 primary partition's with GParted, and because there is already an Extended partition in use (thanks to Dell) I can't create a new Extended partition.
So basically I can;t create any more partitions...

I also have 5GB of unallocated space, how do I add this to the Windows NTFS partition?

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Re: Please help me out of this mess!

Basically, this should help : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/gfs.htm

Larry
GParted-project Admin
Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

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Re: Please help me out of this mess!

Thanks for the help. I managed to do it and Ubuntu is now installed and working...

Chris