Re: Installation Problems [RESOLVED]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Leslie León Sinclair wrote:

> I don´t know what the hell are doing laptop companies, when they install
> Win7 on the new machines, and the way they partition the disks...
> You[Rich] are not the first person experiencing that kind of problems.

   Well, Microsoft still controls the hardware assemblers. Xubuntu,
apparently, leaves the funky partitions alone when it installs. What solved
the problem for me was specifying the slow, bad-sector check when formatting
the partitions with ext3. This resulted in the full 200G of sda1 to be seen
and used; didn't run out of space for the installation. :-)

Thanks for your thoughts,

Rich