RE: Installing Linux in free space
You can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive at one time.
You'll need to convert your data partition to Logical / Extended, and then also create the Linux parititons (you will need a root filesystem and swap space) inside this Logical Partition.
gParted will have taken a long time to resize the partition because it likely had to move data from the end of the partition in to the new boundaries.
|