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Partitioning error. 200GB Hard drive now 20 gigs

Sep 18, 2007 7:05AM PDT

So I do mainly use windows, but for programming and as a development server I like to use linux. I just built a new machine, and all was well and good until I needed linux. I put in the may 2007 edition of ubuntu and started up under the disc. I hit the install button and tried to have it resize my windows partition, which being the greedy little ******* it was had taken up my whole hard drive. After several hours it was still at the 0% mark, so (Here is probably where it went wrong. This was pretty stupid of me) I shut down my machine because I couldnt get it to respond. I thought it turned out all right until I went to my computer in windows and saw that it thought my hard drive was 20 gigs. I cant figure out how to fix it, so could someone recommend some free software to fix the issue? Or if xp pro has something built in, that would be even better

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Research using GPARTED to size the partition up.
Sep 18, 2007 7:28AM PDT

Sorry but I don't want to duplicate web content on it's use.

Bob

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Thanks man
Sep 19, 2007 3:19PM PDT

Virtually every problem I have ever asked for help on, you have been there to solve it. I just wanted to say thanks for all of your help.

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Thanks for the kind words and report.
Sep 20, 2007 1:28AM PDT

Always nice to know if it helps.

Bob