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I know this has been asked and discussed a million times, but to be honest the more I look around for solutions, the more confused I'm getting about it. I partitioned my HDD, created a bootable USB, and the installer just doesn't detect Win7. I wish I could give more information, but I feel like I've tried so many things and I simply can't think of what else to say. =/ I figured you guys could just walk me through it seeing as I can't seem to get it on my own. Please and thanks.

EDIT: I should mention that I've installed Ubuntu on this same machine before. No hardware has changed, but a while ago I ended up formatting my drive and had to reinstall Windows 7. When I installed Ubuntu last time, I ran into no issues. The install went incredibly smooth compared to this. To my knowledge, the software on it currently is also exactly the same. I simply have no clue where to even start at this point.

UPDATE: I've stumbled upon the disks menu. Not sure how I didn't think of this before. Anyways, it's showing the partitions there just fine. First 2 are Windows parts. System reserve and the rest of the Windows files respectively. The 3rd one is empty and formatted as HPFS/NTFS.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l -u /dev/sda

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7d43f9bd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848  1035026431   517409792    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3      1035026432  1953519615   459246592    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
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If your Windows partition is encrypted for example then it will not see it most likely. Open a terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+t and type sudo os-prober This will try to detect installed operating systems on the hard drive. Next you could open GParted from the menu and see if it detects Windows, It should be a NTFS partition, take note of the name, should be something like sda. Go back to a Terminal and type sudo mount /dev/"name of Windows partition here" EX: sudo mount/dev/sda1.

Hopefully this will mount your Windows partition. If it still does not detect windows for the install along side option but Gparted does, Then you can choose the "something else option and manually partition Ubuntu then install. Please note that you may have to reduce or split the Windows partition to make free space to play with.

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