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I wanted to install Ubuntu in my Windows 7 machine in a partitioned drive named 'B:', but if /dev/sda is my primary, what is my partitioned drive then?

RedzaImran0480
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The drive-letters assigned by Windows to drives or partitions are a Windows-internal thing. These drive-letters are not recognized by Ubuntu. Ubuntu uses a different system.

sda  is the first hard-disk-drive in your system
sdb  is the second hard-disk-drive in your system
sdc  is the third hard-disk-drive in your system

A hard-disk-drive may be divided in several partitions.for example, the first drive (sda is divided in three partitions)

sda1  is the first partition on the drive
sda2  is the second partition on the drive
sda3  is the third partition on the drive

I hope this gives you an overview how things work in Ubuntu.

In Windows, you can assign a label (name) to a partition. Partition-labels will be recognized by Ubuntu, using partition-labels would help you to find the partition where you want to install Ubuntu. You may use any third-party partition-manager or the built in partition-tool from Windows to assign labels to the partitions.

If no labels are assigned to partitions, you will have to check the partition-size and/or the used file-system to find the correct partition.

mook765
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