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I am looking to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10. I have been using windows for work and school for over a year, and have about 100 gig of stored files (backed up of course) and some paid programs. Because of this, I really want my partitioning experience to go well. Unfortunately, I am running into a bit of an anomoly When I load GPart, I see that my sda drive is unallocated

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Whereas my sdb appears to contain all of the windows files and partitions, and make up my C: drive https://i.sstatic.net/TySz4.png

Is this going to be an issue, as all literature on dual boot installation references sda? How do I work around it?

System Info: Lenovo IdeaPad Y570- 750GB HDD with 64GB SSD Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz × 8

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See my Web page on this problem. In brief, either your partition table is damaged or there's leftover RAID data causing problems. In the first case, using FixParts can often (but not always) solve the problem. In the latter case, typing sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda should fix the problem -- but do this only if you're 100% positive that the disk is not legitimately configured for RAID.

Rod Smith
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