Solution to failure in using vmware6.0 hard disk to install Ubuntu Partition

I have heard of Ubuntu for a long time and want to try it out. I have no ready-made client forlinux at school, so I can only use virtual machines for physical installation, to improve the performance of a virtual machine, I split a new partition at the end of the hard disk. When I select the Virtual Machine installation location and select "useaphysicaldisk", the physical partition is used. A warning window is displayed, regardless of whether the partition is used or not, next, step by step, do not want to go to grub-install when the partition fails to be performed, consider a while later understand the original under Ubuntu

I have heard of Ubuntu for a long time and want to try it out. I have no ready-made client for linux in school, so I can only use virtual machines for physical installation, in order to improve the performance of the virtual machine, I split a new partition at the end of the hard disk. When I select the Virtual Machine installation location, I select "use a physical disk", which is to use the physical partition. a warning window is displayed, regardless of him, next step by step, do not want to go to grub-install when there is a partition failure error, after a while, you will understand that the System Volume Information file created by the original xp on the disk will be deleted when you create a disk in Ubuntu. However, this file cannot be deleted under xp, therefore, failure may occur.

Learn the cause of failure and immediately start again. Install PQ (partition master) and divide the last partition in xp into ext3 and awp (even the size of the end partition is 10 Gb, EXT3 is divided into 9.5 GB, and swap is divided into 512 MB. In this way, xp cannot identify the two partitions at the end and cannot write the "System Volume Information" file into the partition, in this way, Ubuntu will not be blocked from the partitioning operations on the above, and vmware will be started at last, and everything will go smoothly (select manual partitioning during Ubuntu partitioning and use the previously created ext3 and swap partitions)

Good luck!