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I'm trying to have Ubuntu and Windows 7 dualboot. I couldn't shrink the partitions while in Windows, nor could I do it in GParted.

I didn't get the option to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, so I had to manually adjust the partitions myself.

This is what I've arranged them as. Screenshot Is there anything else I need to do or can I hit install? I've backed up my HDD in case of an issue.

Thanks in advance.

Specs: (Dell Inspiron R17 N7110 Laptop)
- 500 GB Disk space, Windows 7 pre-installed
- 4GB DDR3 RAM (Will be 8 soon)
- Intwl Core i5
- SRS Premium Sound
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 525M

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The swap partition is a waste of disk space. New installations of Ubuntu 17.04 and later use a swap file on the / partition by default instead of a swap partition. Among other things this saves valuable disk space on SSDs. Another way of restating the same thing is that you only need one ext4 partition to fresh install Ubuntu 17.04 and later.

sda1 is your Windows partition. Don't format this partition as ext4 or else it will overwrite Windows 7. Instead leave the Windows 7 partition as NTFS and use the ext4 partition at /dev/sda3 for Ubuntu.

If you already overwrote the Windows partition, you should not install Ubuntu first, instead you should try to recover Windows 7 from an Ubuntu USB live session by following the instructions at How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?. There's a good chance that you haven't overwritten any data, only the sda partition table.

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