When you try to partition my hard drive, we get an error "parameter" unknown or invalid

I want to partition my hard drive of 200 GB to create a 30 GB partition to run Ubuntu. My OS is Windows XP Media Center Edition with Service Pack 3. I read online and loaded "Help and Support" and followed the instructions without success. When I try to use Windows to create the partition, I can't right click on the unallocated disk space to create a new partition. When I use the command prompt, it returns the message "unknown parameter or invalid" no matter what options I specify. Can you recommend a new approach?

I want to partition my hard drive of 200 GB to create a 30 GB partition to run Ubuntu. My OS is Windows XP Media Center Edition with Service Pack 3. I read online and loaded "Help and Support" and followed the instructions without success. When I try to use Windows to create the partition, I can't right click on the unallocated disk space to create a new partition. When I use the command prompt, it returns the message "unknown parameter or invalid" no matter what options I specify. Can you recommend a new approach?

Your question is not quite clear to me. Your reader should all unallocated space? Normally readers aren't.

Fear that there be any question of this as "unallocated" means, is the space that is not in any partition. It is * not * unused space in a partition.

If you don't have unallocated space, you will need a third party program to create another partition.

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