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I bought new laptop with Windows7 hp dv6 , 750gb hd, 8gb ram ...

I wanted to dual boot and install Ubuntu 11.10

As per known procedure I did Shrunk my partition and created 30 gb (unallocated space).

I inserted bookable USB Key , but the GUI installer shows following message "Ubuntu Detected that there are multiple OS are installed on your device."

There were two options 1. Erase all disk and install Ubuntu 2. Do Something else

When I chose 2nd option, it did not detect unallocated space that I had created. Also it showed me this

SDA1 Windows7 (loader) SDA2 Windows7 (loader)

I dont know how its detecting multiple loaders or why its not finding unallocated space for installation.

I also tried to fix problem with un-allocating space using Gparted but nothing happened (I think the space I unallocated using Gparted is now not detected by Win7)

I also tried Wubi which gave unknown error while installation.

I wasted 20 hrs trying to figure it out .... :( please help

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Possible Duplicate You will have to perform a HP Recovery, then read this...superuser.com/questions/359414/… – Moab Feb 3 at 4:25
Windows 7 requires a 100MB reserved boot partition. Could this be what you are seeing? You did not provide the sizes. – iglvzx Feb 3 at 4:45
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