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My laptop has, at least according to what I've read on the internet, a MBR system with a legacy BIOS.

Check for whether system is MBR

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Unfortunately it has 4 partitions: a C: drive, two hidden drives called System Reserved and Recovery and a D: drive that has a size equal to the C: drive.

Disk management view of partitions

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I have an Acer TM P-243M and the D: drive is almost completely empty, except for a folder called '24286c2f7bbdd301c6c8b886ef' which seems to contain something called vcredist. I'm not sure if completely wiping out this partition is safe. My system came with Windows 7 Pro pre-installed and I recently upgraded to Windows 10. I want to install Ubuntu Mate. How should I proceed with the partitioning and installation?

Hizqeel
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Vcredist is visual c redistributable.system is not affected by removing it. you could install Ubuntu on drive d from the CD following instructions during install.leave other partitions untouched.no need to partition or format manually.

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