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New computer with Windows 7 installed, I defrag, shrink, re-boot from Ubuntu LiveUSB, go to gparted and look at partitions before installing Ubuntu....for some reason Win7 is still taking up 400G of my HD!

I resized partition down with gparted, exit and yes of course I can't boot into Windows.

When I go to install Ubuntu in new large unallocated space I get a blank screen at the point you are asked what kind of installation you want.

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LiveUSB, Windows 7 re-installation disk and driver disks also. The HDD currently has 3 allocated partitions: 'diag' fat16, 'recovery' ntfs and 'OS' ntfs which has a red '!' next to it.

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  • Please read OP comment http://askubuntu.com/questions/304025/assistance-recovering-reinstalling-installing-ubuntu-and-win7#comment398006_304038 – Braiam Jan 21 '14 at 12:44

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You should delete all your partitions and make two big partitions (or whatever you want to). One partition for Windows and another one for Linux. If you want to, create a 3º partition to save your personal files with a NTFS format (compatible with both platforms).

After resize your partitions, install Windows first. And then install Ubuntu.

If you want to try to recover some file, take a look at this post

If you have a black screen after the installation, follow the steps mentioned here

If you're still facing troubles, the most probably is that your HDD is damage.

That is all that I can tell you. Hopefully, this will be useful.

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  • yes cool. i normally setup 3 partitions, MS-data-ubuntu. ok so i'll try a complete reinstall.thankyou – razzrat Jun 05 '13 at 01:53
  • unfortunately when i tried to resize partitions using GParted it errored out. As it stands I can't install Ubuntu and I can't get windows to boot. I'm trawling Dell and MS sites to see if I can find something. – razzrat Jun 05 '13 at 14:43
  • I think that you should change your HDD – Lucio Jun 05 '13 at 21:23
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    wiped and re-installed windows so now windows works. thanks for help – razzrat Jun 30 '13 at 14:11