Dear Tongqing,
can you send us the partition table, please? It's new to me that DELL use more
than the Dell Utility Partition, but in case they do, I guess you don't need
them - I would just delete them.
Tim
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:38:05AM -0400, Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to set up a dual boot system on a new Dell laptop factory installed with 64-bit Windows 7 professional.
>
> Model: Dell Latitude E6410
> OS: Windows 7 Professional
> MEM: 8G
> CPU: Corei7
> HD: 500GB
>
> I first shrank the HD with Win7 to give ~250GB space to the new OS, I then installed from DVD, so far, I tested Red Hat 5 workstation, Fedora 13, Ubantu 10, all of them complained that I don't have enough space to put partition.....Further googling found out that DELL had put some hidden partitions (Dell Utility, Recovery, and a partition named READER) on the HD and there is a limit to 4 primary partitions.
>
> Did anyone have any success?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Tongqing
>
> Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D.
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