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Okay, I'm not very good with computers. I got ubuntu a few weeks ago, after having windows which was becoming rubbish so I deleted it. Since then, I've found it hard to get around using some programs without windows, and I'm not a big fan of wine. Got the bootable dvd for windows but when installing it, it says I can't as I don't have a partition with NTFS formatting. Followed this thread https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition/CreatingPartitions but was unsuccessful, because in this thread they used an unformatted hard drive. Tried to unmount mine, but can't because the mount point has an "/" there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

eddie
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laurencez1233
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Basically, you cannot unmount the root partition while you are using it. You will have to shut down your system and boot from another media like a USB stick or a CD and get into live mode to modify partitions on your HDD.

From my experience the best solution for this kind of problem - if you need to run some Windows program alongside Linux - is to use a virtual machine and Windows install there . It is much safer and easier.

Here, I suggest you to install Oracle VirtualBox. It's a well known multi-platform Virtual Machine program.

honza-kasik
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Use Gparted from live CD and then

  • Unmount as u were saying becoz u cannot unmount the disk from which you are using currently so you have unmount from Gparted bootable pendrive
  • or you change the partition as you want.
  • Kindly notify me if you face any more problem
BrownBatman
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