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I am running Windows 10 on new M.2 SSD and on the HDD I have some data (pics, docs, games etc) and I want to boot Ubuntu on it, but I don't want to lose the data. Previously I was trying to install PopOS but I failed due to hardware error. (I don't know what happened I tried everything). So my question now is what partitions do I need to make (BIOS Boot partition? boot/root/home/swap..) I know that root is must be. Does the position of the partitions affect something about the booting the OS?

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My data is on D, and G is something like archive, if needed I can move the few files back in D. I plan to install Ubuntu on the 343GB partition. The other two are some partitions I tried to work with when trying to install PopOS.

All in all, does the position of the partitions affect on something?

Thanks!

Zivko Stoimcev
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Is it ubuntu yet installed in your sistem?

If not:

You can divide the disk in FileSystem with your data and merge all the "useless" partition.

After that in the BIOS start the installer of linux and when the installer is in Section called "Installation type" select option "something else"

You choose the free space merged on windows. You can create the partition with "/" (root) mount point FileSystem ext4 and the second part is a ext4 "/home", if your system is modern you can't create the swap area.

Matteo Dal Grande
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