Unable to install linux mint on my laptop HP g6

Hello ,I am using HP Pavilion g6 laptop with AMD A6 Vision processor and Radeon Graphic card alongwith Win7 home basic genuine version. when I am trying to intall linux mint , encountering a problem at the time of HDD Partition.I chose Alongside windows option and then I clicked on install now icon and thats it, my process is getting struck. No further movement. I waited for hours but also no joy. Even tried with something else option , result is same. My HDD type is BASIC. The HDD where I want to install Linux is formatted in FAT32 type. Please, tell me solution for this.  Thanking you in advance

Anvesh_Raja wrote:
Hello ,I am using HP Pavilion g6 laptop with AMD A6 Vision processor and Radeon Graphic card alongwith Win7 home basic genuine version. when I am trying to intall linux mint , encountering a problem at the time of HDD Partition.I chose Alongside windows option and then I clicked on install now icon and thats it, my process is getting struck. No further movement. I waited for hours but also no joy. Even tried with something else option , result is same. My HDD type is BASIC. The HDD where I want to install Linux is formatted in FAT32 type. Please, tell me solution for this.  Thanking you in advanceYour trying to install a unsuported O/S and then you expect support? It doesn't work that way-you need to contact Linux Mint support and ask them for help. If you want help the laptop has to be the O/S it came with to get help. And if you install a Linux verison you should get support from the Distro you got it from not HP.

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