I was installing Ubuntu, and I think I've got myself a problem.
I have Windows 7 installed on my computer. The partitions were setting up as follows:
100 MB for the boot sector
687 GB for drive C:
15 GB for Win7 drive image
This is what I did. I went to "Disk Management" and shrunk the volume for drive C to make a 100GB space for Ubuntu. I left the space "unallocated", rebooted the computer using the disc that I made with the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. I clicked the button to try out Ubuntu. When I got to the desktop, I clicked System > Administration > GParted.
I selected the "non-allocated" 100 GB area to have GParted to partition for Ubuntu.
Here is where my problem is... after partitioning the area. I go to System > Administration > Install Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS... I follow the prompts and when I get to the step to install to a partition...nothing shows up in the box for what partition I want to install to. So I shut the computer down, take out the Ubuntu disc, and the computer freezes.
I put the disc back in to reboot to Ubuntu, run GParted and instead of seeing all the available partitions... I see 1...yes 1 partition that is 687 GB that is "unallocated".
I'm guessing that Win7 is completely off my computer. What the heck???
How can I get Win7 back??? My computer didn't come with a disc. I guess I'm screwed!!!
What should I do now???