Sorry to look stupid but it's my first time to install ubuntu or any linux distro actually. I got my HDD with C & D partitions. The 'D' partition has so much important files while 'C' is for windows. I wanna install ubuntu on the 'C' partition without affecting the D partition. Can anyone explain in steps! Thanks :)
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You may consider:
- Use a virtual machine (VM). Options are: VMware Workstation Player (https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0), and VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). Upon installation of one of those virtual machine software, you should be able to create a virtual machine, then create its virtual hard drive as a file on your C drive. If you are not satisfied with your virtual machine and want to delete it, you can safely delete the virtual machine's home folder on your physical hard drive.
- For Windows 7 or lower, use "wubi" (See this for details: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide). This tool comes with an official Ubuntu installation image. You can run "wubi" in your Windows from the image. It creates a virtual hard drive which you can choose its location and size. It also adds an Ubuntu item into your Windows boot manager.
- If you want to install an independent installation of Ubuntu - not recommended if you are new to Linux, you CANNOT install it in any existing Windows partitions (C:, D:, or whatever visible in Windows) because Linux and Windows should use different file systems by default to ensure normal operation (ext4 and NTFS respectively). In this way you have to shrink one of your current partitions, and create an ext4 partition for Ubuntu (probably a Linux swap partition too).
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