I have a 250 GB Hard Drive that has Vista on it and I reduced the partition to 160 GB. I tried to load Linux Mint on the remaining 70 GB of space, it was formatted. I got as far as where I had to chose between manual or auto. I tried auto first and it wonted to install on the partition that has vista. There was no choice to choose the other partition (the I drive). I went back and tried manual. It asked for a partition to put the OS on and one for the swap file I make them both 2 GB. I was told that I needed 2 GB for Mint and that I need the swap file to be as big as the amount of memory that you have on the machine. That is 2 GB. After all that it told me that it wasn't activated. I am at a loss as what to do now. I need all the help I can get. What do I do now. Oh, I tried the Linux site and didn't get any help. By that I mean that what they proposed didn't help. Thank you much for your time.