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This is what the windows screen looks like:

Volume          Layout  Type    File System Status                         Capacity FreeSpace
 (C:)           Simple  Dynamic NTFS        Healthy(Boot,Page File)        549.76GB  20.85GB
HP_RECOVERY (E: Simple  Dynamic NTFS        Healthy                         16.63GB   2.54GB
HP_TOOLS (F:)   Simple  Dynamic FAT32       Healthy                          4.98GB   2.13GB
New Volume (H:) Simple  Dynamic NTFS        Healthy                        126.95GB 126.86GB
SYSTEM (D:)     Simple  Dynamic NTFS        Healthy (System)                  300MB    259MB

This is the details on the Ubuntu instalaltion screen:

/dev/sda1    1MB     unknown
/dev/sda2    314MB   unknown
/dev/sda3    590302MB  3221MB used
/dev/sda4    159537MB  15124MB used

The sizes don't match. I want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows on the "New Volume" which is free space. Anyone out there that can assist please?

Braiam
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Because you are using the Windows "Dynamic Disk" partitioning scheme, which the Linux partitioning tools do not yet understand ( it's proprietary and only partially reverse engineered ).

You will need to reduce the number of partitions to 3, then convert it back to a basic disk, then you can create an extended partition and fill it with logical partitions.

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