I have a Linux Mint partition on my windows 10 laptop that a friend set up for me a while back to try Linux. Mint played weirdly with my system putting more strain on it than windows 10 did somehow so I just left it to sit there while continuing to use Windows.  I am interested in trying Ubuntu, but I can't just ask my friend to do it this time. I have been trying to look up tutorials or guides, but there are surprisingly few and the ones I have found imply it is easy to accidentally wipe out your windows partition.  I have a bare minimum of Linux knowledge. I have played around in Linux a tiny bit, and know how to use a bootable USB on a system that can just be wholesale overwritten. But when it comes to the partitions and how you would replace them it seems foreign to me.  If nothing else I'd like to find what resources would help someone who has no idea what they are looking at, and I apologize if this is written poorly. This is my first post on the forum.
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I'd like to see the full How-To on how to use manual partitioning during Ubuntu installation. The existing guides (at least those I found here) cover only automatic part and leave untouched the manual part (or extremely short and contain no pictures).  I'd like to cover such situations:     If your disk contains other systems:
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Till now I was windows user. From now on I want to use only Linux.   I have 500Gb HDD. How do I partition it properly? I read that there is no right or wrong way, but still, I am confused. I did something and I have primary partition mounted on / (160Gb) which I believe is a OS and 350Gb extended partition of which I have 4Gb of swap and 346Gb mounted on /home.  I got used to C:\ and D:\ partitioning, but I don't see file system in that way. I am lost. Where is what? How can I make C:\ partition for OS and D:\ for apps, movies, music, photos. Or what I want is Windows way and I have to get used to Linux way?
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How do I completely reinstall Ubuntu without affecting the Windows partition? The way I setup my laptop is like this:   Completely wiped everything using GParted from Ubuntu CD Partitioned the HDD to 3 partitions (one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, one for Storage) Installed Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit   The reason why I want to reinstall is NOTHING works in Ubuntu. No internet at all both Ethernet, and Wireless and when I figured out how to fix the wireless, there is no way to download drivers for the display so everything is just ugly and big. To make things more complicated, upgrading to 10.10 via update manager just gives me an error.  The way I see it right now is I have to try to wipe 10.04 and just install 11.04 from scratch but I'm not sure how to do that? Does anyone know?
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I want to use the "reset my PC" feature of Windows 10 to wipe the data on my Windows partition. But I have also a Linux system installed, which I want to keep.  Will Windows 10's full reset wipe all my disk, or just Windows's partitions ?
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In theory, what I want to do is very simple, but I've done some google research and read some posts on this site and I'm still confused.   I want to keep win7 on my primary C:\ drive, and install Ubuntu (12.10) on a secondary drive (that I have yet to buy or install. I just want to be certain that I'm successful when I do this). If at all possible I'd also like it if when I start the computer I have the option to boot either Win7 or Ubuntu, like an account log in type thing where I just pick which drive I'm running with that day. And just to reiterate, I do not want to partition my C:\ drive or alter, change, or affect my Win7 system in any way.  The reason I'm still fairly uncertain about all of this, is that a lot of the guides I've read have been for earlier versions of Ubuntu. Also the vast majority of guides are about partitioning one drive to fit both OS'. I want two separate OS running from two separate drives that I can pick at boot. The guides I did find mentioned that there is some issue with the grub being installed on C:\ but the rest of the OS being installed on the other drive. Is this still the case? How do I avoid that?  Also, if it helps, I've been running 12.04lts on my laptop for a few months now in and out of class and I love it.  Finally, if you could please point me to a guide or write your answer in the form of a guide for a two year old that'd be awesome. I'm still an Ubuntu novice and I don't want to mess up my win7.
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I wanted to replace windows 7 with Ubuntu.   Is it possible to try Ubuntu from USB, like a fully functional Ubuntu?, want to test sound, WiFI connectivity etc. Is there an option to exit from the above option, in case I dont want to install Ubuntu, try it later after fixing something?
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I have Win Xp on first Primary Partition.  I am leaving another 2 primaries for a future possible Win install. I am planning my Logical partitions to install a Linux Mint. I read that a separate /home gives re-usability across future Linus'es. I thought it might be clever to keep /home as NTFS, to smoothly share data across Win and Linux too. I am anxious though as most of the forums declare NTFS inferior to ext4. But some forums said that performance of file system is not as much driven by its structure, but mainly by the kernel driver and algorithms for read and write.   Questions   If Linux has good algorithms [as implemented with ext4], wont it perform same on NTFS too? May be the inferiority of NTFS is only with windows, But same NTFS performs equally well on ext4? If not, Is the peformance low enough to stay away from NTFS, and think of other ways to share data across Win and Linux? Does ways exist to read ext4 from WinXp or 7? Any other recommendations from practical experiences are welcome.
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I'm new to how Ubuntu works and installed it yesterday alongside Windows 7, but in doing so I have created a few problems. I have partitions for Windows, Ubuntu, System Recovery, and storage for all my files with the intention to access them on either OS, but I don't even see all of my drives listed on Home Folder. Not to mention that  during the Ubuntu instillation I managed to screw up any chance of booting to the Windows side of things at all. I'll fix Windows once I get my hands on a copy in a couple days, but in the mean time any suggestions for accessing my files?  If you need me to find any data about my computer to help you figure out what's wrong with it, please don't hesitate to tell me what I need to show you. Thanks
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The SSD is set to ACHI (whatever it is, it was automatically set). Secure boot is set to Other OS (only other choice).  Linux only. No Windows. Hate Windows. No dual boot. Microsoft hasn't touched my computer in years. Windows can suck it.  I formatted both SSD and HDD drives to GPT. - Corsair 30GB SSD (putting / and swap on here) - Old, ~300GB HDD. No problems with the drive have been found. (putting /home here)   The live Mint USB isn't corrupt. I did the checksum before installing, and have done multiple checks on the USB before booting.  Installing Mint in UEFI mode is resulting in "grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install into /target/". Any forum I found on this error has not had a solution compatible with my problem. That package doesn't appear to exist. The installer will fail upon this message occurring. I have an internet connection. It's hardwired... (insert Metallica reference here). I can cruise the interwebs during the live boot.  Installing Mint in legacy, not UEFI, is resulting in no OS being found.  Specs: - 18.1 Cinnamon (3.2.6) 64-bit - AMD FX-8350 8 core x4 - 8GB RAM - AMD/ATI Turks XT, Radeon HD 6670/7670    I am not sure what the hell is going on anymore.
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I booted from the Ubuntu ISO which I burned on a disk and installed Ubuntu, and chose the option to replace windows 7 with Ubuntu, now the version of windows 7 I was running was an illegal cracked version and I already had tried to get rid of it without booting into the actual OS and after many attempts was unsuccessful. Now did installing Ubuntu and choosing the option of replacing windows 7 actually solve my problem and did it wipe the previous windows OS EVERY LITTLE PART OF IT.
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I normally dual-boot with 12.04 and Win XP pro sp3 on a Thinkpad R60.  I needed to reinstall windows because of problems piling up, so I ran the computer's built-in hard-disk recovery software.  I told it not to mess with the other partitions, but somehow it deleted the Linux partition.  That's what I was using to backup all of my windows files, so now everything I have is gone.  I just ran the USB setup with linux, and the partition is deleted - it just shows it as empty space.    Is there ANY way to get all of my files back?
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I purchased a PC six months ago for work related tasks. I do 95% of my work on Ubuntu (web development). Now, I want to install Windows on another partition to play a few games on my relax time. Which steps should I follow? Any suggestions? Every guide I found suggest to install Windows and, after that, Ubuntu. Being this my main development machine, I cannot afford the risk of wiping everything.
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As you can guess, I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu and Kali.  But the thing is that i don't have a spare ubuntu iso(which would allow me to live boot ubuntu and then create a partition using g parted or any other app since my hd remains unmounted). So, it would be very awesome if anyone could provide me a way to create a new partition without unmounting it.. TIA
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I wonder if someone can help me? I am fairly new to trying to actually understand and use computers myself rather than just buying whatever Windows/Mac wants me to! You will get a giggle from my flawed attempts anyway :-)  I would like to start using Ubuntu on my PC, just got a new harddrive and did have a borrowed windows 7 disk as was planning to temporarily install it so i could get ubuntu. However I didn't have high enough spec hardware for win 7 (I think it is due to only 1gb ram, i do have 64 bit technology and a 1tb harddrive). I am quite happy to install 32 bit ubuntu and hear it is easier the use than 64 anyway.  So I have one other rubbish mini laptop (windows xp) which i am trying to use to get ubuntu onto a usb (laptop has no cd drive) so i can install it on the pc. First tried just downloading ubuntu 13.04 desktop onto a usb and trying to boot the pc from it which gave the message 'no operating system'. Then I tried this to create a bootable usb which sounded promising:  . However then it starting asking for my saucy desktop iso in order to install it onto the usb stick, can't really manage to find out what a saucy desktopp iso is, maybe a mirror image of an operating system, no idea why i would need that.  So in short, I'm lost. All I can think of is getting windows xp somewhere so i can get my pc to work and install ubuntu from the internet on that, or going to a friends house in the hope that creating a bootable cd is easier than creating a usb.  Sorry for my general ineptness and hope someone can help!
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I can't boot my Linux Mint after installation of Windows. First I installed Windows and then installed Linux Mint with the option of "Install along with windows". But after I completed the Mint install only Windows is booting.  I have done some search on the web and found that installing Grub from the Live CD will help on this issue. I have done that also (but I'm not sure whether I have done this correctly). After that Windows is also not booting and I am stuck on this.
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I'm still a newbie with Linux but I'm trying to learn. I have two USBs, one is 4GB and has the ISO install of Ubuntu (I think it's called live, the one with maximum of 4GB of permanent storage) and got a 64gb usb to make a permanent full install on it. I installed it following  tutorial and everything looks fine (I had to create the EFI partition with the Terminal though) but it just won't boot, the live install boots without problems.   I'm using the school's computers which have the UEFI menu password protected so I can't access that and I won't have a laptop for like 3 weeks (main reason why I'm doing this). I tested it with a friend's laptop disabling the Secure boot but it still wouldn't boot. I also saw that some tutorials don't add the EFI partition so I tried without that one and still won't work. And I know it's not the 64GB usb not booting because I had a live install on it too before and it booted fine.  Please, I have been trying to make it work for two days now, any ideas? I can barely understand this stuff so if you could explain step by step that would be awesome.
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I have dual booted Ubuntu with Windows 7. I wanted to uninstall Ubuntu. So as per an answer for one of the related questions on this site I did the following:   Deleted the Ubuntu Partition through Windows. As per the answer now I was supposed to boot Windows from USB &amp; then do "repair startup".   But Windows could not find any problem hence nothing was done. So when my laptop booted normally (i.e. from HDD) it was showing some error like GRUB:/ unknown file system. I dont remember the exact words but it was something like this. Thus I couldn't boot windows neither Ubuntu. So again I had to install Ubuntu.  But now my question is how do I remove Ubuntu so that my laptop returns to the previous state of installing Ubuntu?  UPDATE: Seems that it wasnt on this site. My mistake :P .Here is the link