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I have a 2 terabyte sata drive:

  • The first partition is a 100 Mb system reserved.

  • The second is a primary partition 18.58 Gb. It has no description and no options on right click. Everything is greyed out. Is that a restore partition?

  • The third partition is a 745 Gb C drive healthy boot page file win 7 partition.

  • The forth partition is a storage area 1099 Gb.

Should I start by shrinking c-drive to lets say 150 Gb? If I do what is the next step.

I have downloaded a 14.04.1 ISO file. I can put that on a USB or DVD. After shrink windows 7 partition should I create another partition for ubuntu or will i take care of that during install?

What about any other partitions I might want to make or need?

Thank you for all the help.

ben rudgers
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ubmudd
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you have 2 options if you don't want lose your previous data or OS.

You need know that the maximum number of primary partitions on a disk is 4.

So, this is what I would do :

  1. Backup contents of DATA partition

  2. In Ubuntu installer select Custom partitioning

  3. Erase DATA Partition

  4. Create an extended partiotion and inside of the extended partition I would create the following partitions:

A. DATA PARTITION

B. SWAP PARTITION for Ubuntu (4 GB for example)

C. EXT PARTITION for Ubuntu O.S

makgyverzx
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