Prior to making the changes discussed in the replies, I should make sure the correct harddrive is selected. The following info is displayed. sda | 80GB | ATA ... sdb | ... | ... sdc | 80GB | FUJITSU ... How can I find out if my windows xp C:\partition is sda or sdc? <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM, pete b. <<a href="mailto:phpete48@gmail.com">phpete48@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What I'm doing is installing fedora-10 so I can dual boot either fc-10 or windows-xp. windows-xp already exists using 26GB of 80GB on the HD. I go thru a few menus. Then I get to the partitioning and have problems. I selected "use free space of selected drives and create default layout". 1 drive is selected and the same drive is chosen to boot from. The response is: 1. Could not allocate requested partitions. Not enough space left to create partition for /boot. 2. Have not defined a root partition. What is going on with this? Is there a reliable fix? FYI pehaps I selected the wrong disk (I have two). Is there a method to find out the manufacturer of a disk from windows? thx much, peter </blockquote></div>