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thomas pars
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 Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:25 am Post subject: Help with hard drive partition |
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Got a windows 7 machine. I want to do a dual boot on Ubuntu. The trouble is that I have to do a manual partition because that dual boot option isn't available.
I have sda1 ntfs 1.6 GB...5000 MB used. I am guessing this is the boot for windows....Do not delete?
sda 2 ntfs 107.4 GB ...27773 MB used. Windows?
sda3 ntfs 200.3 GB 27263 MB used.
sda 4 ntfs 10.7 GB 6347 MB used. Boot recovery?
Where can I make the partition and not lose windows?
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Wad
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:24 am Post subject: Re: Help with hard drive partition |
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| thomas pars wrote: |
Got a windows 7 machine. I want to do a dual boot on Ubuntu. The trouble is that I have to do a manual partition because that dual boot option isn't available.
I have sda1 ntfs 1.6 GB...5000 MB used. I am guessing this is the boot for windows....Do not delete?
sda 2 ntfs 107.4 GB ...27773 MB used. Windows?
sda3 ntfs 200.3 GB 27263 MB used.
sda 4 ntfs 10.7 GB 6347 MB used. Boot recovery?
Where can I make the partition and not lose windows?
-Cheers. |
First install Windows, then when you install Ubuntu it will ask if you want to install beside Windows. Choose the first option, which should say "Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup".Specify the size of the new partition by dragging the slider at the bottom of the window. Sda1 is your largest partition so you will resize this partition. Click on "Forward". Continue on to Finishing Ubuntu Installation.
Its soooo easy!
P.S. Why so many small partitions on a single hard drive?
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hallazgo
Joined: 22 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:07 am Post subject: |
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if your sda1-4 partitions consume the entire drive, then you're going to have to do more than "move the slider" or you'll likely lose data.
I repartition by hanf using the windows 7 tools rather than rely on ubuntu to automagically do it correctly |
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Wad
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| hallazgo wrote: |
if your sda1-4 partitions consume the entire drive, then you're going to have to do more than "move the slider" or you'll likely lose data.
I repartition by hanf using the windows 7 tools rather than rely on ubuntu to automagically do it correctly |
He can not format ext3 using Windows 7...only resize the NTFS partiton. Windows only supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT for partitions it can make/read/write to. In order to make a ext3 partition you need to use Linux. So I don't really see any advantage here over Gparted.
GParted is an excellent program and you�ll see your primary drive, ready to be altered. You can delete the whole partition if you like, or just resize it. All you need to do is right-click the drive or partition you want to edit. The menu that comes up even features sliders you can drag if entering numbers isn�t quite your style. There is no reason for him to lose any data, none whatsoever!
P.S. I read the numbers wrong in the beginning. I will assume his c:/ drive is Sda2 and probably the correct partition to load Ubuntu. Sda1 is probably the boot-loader but why so big at 1.6Gb? Normally Windows 7 sets this at 100MB! Sda4 is another questionable partition at 10.7GB.
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