Project: Lappy - Part 3 of 3

Part 3 - Clean Up the Messy Partitions

Because my workmate had attempted to dual boot XP with Kubuntu, he inadvertantly created a bit of a mess with the partitions. For example, using the gparted LiveCD failed to access the partitions because it thought the whole hard disk was a single unallocated partition.

At first I could not for the life of me figure out what was happening. In the end, I resolved this by booting off the Windows XP CD and proceeded with the install until I got to the stage where you get to manage the partitions. There was this one particular partition who's total size exceeded all the rest combined and that of the hard disk itself! After deleting this odd partition, everything appeared to return to normal and I quit the setup.

And sure enough, this did the trick.

Now gparted LiveCD was able to access and view the partitions with no problems. And dual booting between Kubuntu and Windows XP was successful.

And just to add that cherry on top, I updated Kubuntu and Windows with any new updates.