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i am currently using win 7 and am planning on installing ubuntu alongside win7 but i have unable to do so. Previously i used to install ubuntu inside win using wubi but this time i wanted it as a native os . I have a 500 gb hd. c: win 7 (71gb capacity) d: some stuff (289gb capcaity ) e: (98 gb capcaity ) i want to install it in e drive. since it is having free space so it shrank the vol and created an un allocated space of 35gb for installing. while in ubuntu install process i choose something else and tried to choose 35gb partiton as to create root,boot and home partitions it wont select. all the drives c,d,f are in ntfs ...even while formatting wont show anyother option except ntfs

Nitin singh
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Please don't try to set the partition sizes or format said partitions for Ubuntu. Ubuntu's installer will do that for itself. It will help you to partition the drive and it will format the partition in its own ext4 format, not NTFS.

(I'm cooking dinner or this might be more complete. I may come back later with more tips. Please feel free to comment.)

gyropyge
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A basic disk can only have 4 primary partitions. If you already have 3 primaries defined, Ubuntu may not have enough to work with. I'm pretty sure Ubuntu needs to create at least two in order to function. On a basic disk, it might even need 3 - one for root, one for boot, and one for swap.

Remove that E: drive partition (once you've moved everything off it, if there's anything there) and see if that lets things install. If not, you'll need to convert the disk to Dynamic partitions, and see if that works instead.

If you have a spare drive around, you'll probably have a much easier time of it. Borrow one from a friend if you don't have one. There's a full walkthrough here for dual disk dual booting.

Dale C. Anderson
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