Having trouble dual booting fedora and windows.

[freeman4312]

Hi all,

I am having trouble installing Fedora 17 on my laptop which has windows already.
I make a partition of about 80 gigabytes in the fedora installer and it shows up as free space, however when I click to install on free space, it gives me an error saying there is not enough space. I have tried going the custom way and it still gives me the same error. Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Please help me I need it for science fair

[sonoran]

It could be that Fedora cannot create a new partition despite there being free space available.
You can only have 4 primary partitions on a bios/mbr layout, and it is not unusual these days
for Windows and OEMs to use them all.

Check out post #4 in this thread:
http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/sh...d.php?t=287248

I'm not familiar with Windows, but if you could post a screenshot of your current disk layout
that might enable someone to offer a solution.

[freeman4312]

Thanks for the help. You were right the number of partitions were one too many. I removed one of the useless oem partitions and it worked immediately. Thanks again for the help.