I wanted to install a linux OS in my laptop (pet name cyberayya). Cyberayya had single partition 100GB in C:. I know it is foolish to have such arrangement, but, thats what CircuitCity gave me, when I bought it.
I tried to resize the partition and install Ubuntu in the newer partition.
I chose Partition magic for that. Some website offered a free download of it. I did not notice that it had a disclaimer "Demo version. Non functional". Literally, it was a demo with GUI and the actual resizing did not happen.
Then started searching for some free tools. My friend suggested the Gnome partition tool (gaprted). I downloaded from gparted.org. Created a live CD and then tried to resize using it. But unfortunately it did not recognize the NTFS file system, which housed 100 GB.
I somehow managed to get a copy of partition magic from the neighbourhood software installer. The resize operation in PM failed with error 983. Later I learnt from Web that it is due to the errors in the hard drive. I used chkdsk \R utility in windows XP to check the disk. This command will even fix the errors if any in disk. Then I retried the resize of Partition magic. Bingo. It worked and resized the partition.
Then installed the Ubuntu OS. Currently using Ubuntu for all the day to day computer activities. I shall blog more abt Ubuntu later. For now, Ubuntu rocks !
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Ubuntu is the out-of-box linux that supports most of the hardware. Even I liked Ubuntu. I tried live CD first and then I installed in temporarily.
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