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I'm currently running Windows 7 and decided to dual-boot with Ubuntu. I made a different partition (by referring to a tutorial).

The disk management window looks like: enter image description here

Once I boot it from my optical drive, it says:

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I can't see an option to install Ubuntu alongside Windows so I thought of trying to make it manually. The problem is that it doesn't recognize either the unallocated free space or the Windows partition space.

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What should I do?

Edit: I have seen the link in the answer to "Installing Ubuntu alongside windows 8.1", but it is quite complicated and I'm not very experienced at partitioning.

mickmackusa
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You can't simply install Ubnutu on a GUID Parted Table that is GPT in short which is commonly used by Windows 7, 8... If you want to install Ubuntu on a GPT disk (you can check it via the sudo parted -l command), you will need either an EFI partition (if your BIOS is setup in EFI mode) or a BIOS-Boot partition (if your BIOS is setup in Legacy mode). How to create a boot partition provided in this documentation.

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