[Solved]Partitioning Dilemas

So, I've been trying to partition my Hard Drive with gparted. What I did is I seperated the drive in half basically, 80 GBs to windows XP, and the other 80 GBs is unallocated. I was told that when I tried auto-prepare the hard drive that it would tell me which HDD to use, because when partitioned it would read it as two instead of one drive but its not asking for this at all. I've never manually partitioned a drive before and almost always used auto-prepare when available. It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to use gparted, and separate a large amount of the unused space on windows into unallocated space, but now I think I must've done something wrong, so if possible can someone give me some ideas?
Summary:
1.) I played around with gparted to figure out how to move unused freespace into my unallocated space.
2.) I was told that when partitioned it should read it as 2 drives instead of one and if auto-prepare is used it should ask me which partition to use.
3.) I've never manually partitioned a HDD before, and I suspect I did something wrong.
4.) Amount of space I seperated by is by half (80 GB's XP, and 80 GB's unallocated).
If more information is needed than please ask.
Last edited by SirEdgar2nd (2009-05-29 06:49:58)

Sounds like the person who told you about auto-prepare thought you were going to install arch on a 2nd hardrive.
You will have to manually partition the drive, check the Beginners Guide .

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