[ltp] gain exclusive access to disk?

[Josh Battles]

Nobody here can help me with this?

Josh Battles said:
> So after reading up on Ubuntu at the recommendation of the list here I
> decided that I'd take the time and get it installed last night.  Well,
> progress stopped almost immediately because I can't seem to make room for it
> on my drive.  I make the changes with partition magic 8 and then when I
> reboot so that it can apply my changes I get "error 27: cannot lock drive."
> After spending some time with google I find out that you've got to disable
> the recovery partition in the bios, so I do that and try to run it again to
> no avail.  I then disabled the security chip as well as Norton AV, but am
> still unable to gain exclusive access to the drive so that PM8 can resize the
> NTFS partition.  What am I missing here?
>
> (I've got a T42 if that matters)
>
> Cliffs for those with ADD:
> 1. decide to install Ubuntu on my T42 last night
> 2. disable predesktop area as well as security chip
> 3. unable to "lock" disk in PM8 so I cannot resize partition
> 4. disable NAV
> 5. still unable to gain exclusive access to drive
> 6. what am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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