My Harddrive refuses to be partitioned by me.

[Xerxes]

Hello,

My harddrive currently carries essentially one partition on which there is Windows XP home edition installed. 53 of 120 GB of the partition are not in use and I intend to install LINUX alongside Windows using this free space.

The Linux installation routine will stop after a long pause with an error message when I try to repartition. (The error message says just 'partitioning failed' or so, so nothing that gets me anywhere)

I then tried to just repartition using Symantec Partition Magic. When I do so, runs the "checking filesystem" and exits with:

Error 1529 while executing batch

Error 1529-information mismatch in directory entry

They tell you that you should run a chkdsk, i did so with chkdsk /i , chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r and the problem persists.

When I ran the chkdsk /i it said that there where errors in the filesystem that can be repaired by running chkdsk /f (which i had done right before) and that there are 0 KB in "bad" sectors. So I'd guess the hard drive is ok.

I have no clue what to do or try next, it would be great if anyone here could help me.

With best regards,

X

 

[lawson_jl]

You can try Gparted. I find it works better then most paid partition programs. I've always found most partition programs to be hit or miss for the most part and try to avoid using them. I have had zero issues with Gparted and have had no issues with it.

 

[Xerxes]

Thank you for your advice, lawson.

I booted with a GPartition CD, it all went well up to the point where the GUI showed up. Then my computer just turned itself off. I tried it again a couple of times, namely booting in safe mode and booting from RAM. The same thing happened, it just dies, you can hear the cooler stop and then start as it reboots.

I encountered this also during one of my attempts of installing a version of Kubuntu.

It said something about "priority set to -1 instead of requested 0" when it started up.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?