1) I wish to install ubuntu on my SSD, I have windows 10 on it atm, I wish to erase and install ubuntu on it. All my data have been stored on the internal HDD on my laptop, shall I move the data to external HDD and format both drivers then install ubuntu on SSD, or will I be able to access the internal HDD without any errors after formating and installing ubuntu on the SSD?   2) What partitions do I need on Ubuntu installation to make the HDD as my data directory as well?
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I have a laptop (4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Intel core i3 2.4 GHz) with 2 Partitions: one For data and one for windows 8 x64.  Actually, I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 instead of Windows 8 but keeping Data partition.   So, my question is: There is no matter to use ubuntu with NTFS Windows Partition. Or i should use ext4 partition for good result? Otherwise what you think about multiple partitions for ubuntu installation?  / /home /etc  ...   Any suggestion will be very appreciated
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I am in a similar situation as this poster except I have Windows 7 Pro: I have SSD which is the C drive which stores windows and a 1TB hard drive. I have created a CD with an image of Ubuntu. I'm still pretty new to all this so need a bit of hand holding!    I'm not clear from his post whether or not he has partitioned his hard drive prior to installing Ubuntu or not.   However judging from the response there 2nd hard drive sdb does not appear to be partitioned. The responder (Mitch) goes on to partition the drive using the Ubuntu installer as shown.    In my case I already have files stored on the second drive, can I still safely use the Ubuntu installation software to partition software? Or would it be better to use a different piece of software to partition the hard drive prior to install? Obviously I don't want the existing files to be wiped (although I have backed them up). FYI, I've never partitioned a hard drive before.  Also I noticed that other answers to the same problem suggest disconnecting the windows hard drive first.    2 ways, depending on exactly how you want to choose what OS you want to boot into.   You want to choose via the BIOS boot menu: Disconnect the current Windows drive Connect the other drive Install Ubuntu Choose the OS during the BIOS boot sequence You want to choose via the GRUB menu: Leave the Windows drive connected Connect the other drive Install Ubuntu to the new drive (be careful here that you choose the correct drive!) At boot time, you will be presented with a menu, allowing you which OS to boot into   As well as being safer (in that your Windows drive won't be wiped) especially important in my case as I don't have the capacity to back it up.   Is there any major advantages between choosing the OS via the BIOS as opposed to the Grub drive? FYI... I'm not even sure what a Grub drive is, I'm just looking for the easiest/quickest solution.  Mitch's original response seems to be the the GRUB based solution. Is this correct?   However all I have to do to amend Mitch's solution to the BIOS based one is to physically disconnect the windows drive after switching the boot to DVD drive in BIOS and then follow Mitch's instructions for the rest but having one drive instead of two.  I then reconnect the windows drive afterwards.  Do I have to make any other changes to the BIOS after this?
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I have Ubuntu on my laptop. Now I want install Windows 7 in a dual-boot. How can I do this? I can't lose my Ubuntu files, and I'm afraid that I might break . Go  for UEFI only!
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Can I install Ubuntu on a partition formatted as NTFS, instead of EXT4?  After installing Ubuntu 11.10 using ext4, I keep on getting disk errors at boot up.  But on this same harddrive, I have Windows 7, and I don't get these errors.  So I wanted to try NTFS, instead of EXT4, and see if it makes any difference.  The harddrive is about 5 years old.  So if it is failing, I would think it would be giving trouble in Windows just as well.
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Going to install Ubuntu 10.10 on new intel x25M 80GB SSD. It will be fresh install. I have been googling for past few days and getting overwhelming articles/blogs/Q&amp;As. One particularly very useful being:     But with so many suggestions and differences of opinions (on different links) this simple OS install process seems to be daunting task to me and I really want to stick with Ubuntu (although have used for very short period of time).  Can someone help me by answering few questions (yes, they are repeated because I couldn't comprehend the answers elsewhere)   Which file system (ext2/3/4 or something else)? (consider SSD life) Can it be changed after installation? Should I partition the disk? (as we do in traditional HDD) for now, no plan of dual booting. Only Ubuntu will live on scarce space of 80GB SSD. I have 2 GB RAM, should i still allocate swap space (if I don't allocate swap space, can I still hibernate the machine)? will swap space impact SSD life? Should I consider putting additional 1GB RAM to avoid swap space? What is partition aligning? Is it needed to be done before installing the Ubuntu OS or can be done later?   Intended usage - heavy browsing, programming, regular video/music and some other non-CPU/RAM-intensive programs. Will keep big files in an external hard drive.  laptop config - 3yr old Vaio, Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM  More references:        (resizing/creating does not seem a simple process after look this)
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Okay, so here's the story.  I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04.  I currently have a 2TB drive in my computer where Windows 7 boots from, and a secondary 500GB drive that also has a bootable installation of Windows 7, because the version on the 2TB is a clone of what was on the 500.. I do not need any information on the 500 as I already have it moved over to the 2TB.  What I want is to completely reformat the 500 so that it has about 300GB for NTFS and the rest for Ubuntu.  However, I can't seem to find a straightfoward way to do that in the Ubuntu installer.  If I click on "Install Ubuntu alongside them," it does not give me the option to select my 500GB drive, only my 2TB.  I do NOT want any linux partitions on my 2TB drive.  I do not want to click, "Erase disc and install Ubuntu" for obvious reasons.  Finally, clicking "something else" brings up a menu that is quite confusing.  I can kind of figure out how to use it, but it's not as straightfoward as I'd like..  Further, I know that Ubuntu requires a SWAP partition, but I do not know how much, or even how, to allocate that with the stupid dropdown menus it gives me.  So, to get to the point..  What is the easiest, safest way to do what I want to do?  That is, allocate approximately 200G for Ubuntu on my 500G drive, and be able to choose between Windows 7 on my 2TB drive and Ubuntu at startup - all, of coarse, without touching the 2TB drive at all.  Thanks!
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I have 41 GB of space on my E:/ drive. Is it sufficient to install Ubuntu? My Windows XP is installed in C:/ drive. Is it OK for dual boot? Should I install Ubuntu (I am installing using Live CD). I don't want to lose my Windows option.
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Which one to setup first and how to partition the disk to have Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual boot? Which one is better to boot load? Any guide in details?
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Not sure if the title is specific enough, so here we go:  I crashed my Windows pc, and now I want to install Ubuntu on that computer. I'm currently using my Mac, as it is the only operable computer I have left. I have downloaded the .iso. I guess my question is; How do I go about installing Ubuntu on my crashed computer from the external harddrive? I've used Ubuntu before, but I used to install it from a CD-rom. I tried reading the instructions, but couldn't really understand them. Please help  Edit: As Tom mentioned, I only want to install Ubuntu on the (formerly) Windows machine.  Anyways, thanks for the quick responses, I think I've got it from here. Cheers
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I'm a new Linux user and a Windows convert. I tried Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) a few years ago and liked it quite a bit, and I'm in the process of installing Xubuntu 13.10 along side Windows7 on my brand new SSD! At this point, Windows is still being installed because I need it to be, but Linux is getting installed because I want to use it! I've done quite a bit of research and I've toyed around with Linux before, but I'm still a newbie and I have a few questions concerning partitions and program installations..  My new SSD isn't huge (120GB Samsung 840 EVO), and I'll be using my old 800GB HDD as a secondary drive. The thing is, I plan on using Linux as much as possible; only switching over to Windows7 when I absolutely need to. Because of this, I'll be doing a 50:50 split of my SSD for each OS (60GB for Linux, 60GB for Windows). I'm also planning on splitting my old, 800GB HDD into 3 partitions: some space for extra linux programs, some space for extra windows programs, and then a shared NTFS partition for all of my data (music, videos, documents, etc.).  So to sum up my space situation:   ~60gb SSD + 200gb HDD for Linux..  ~60gb SSD + 200gb HDD for Windows.. ~400gb shared NTFS..   This leads me to my questions.. While I have a fairly good idea of how my Windows setup will work (60gb C: drive, 200gb D: drive, etc.), the Unix/Linux directory structure is still very new to me and is making this process a little bit confusing. I know that it's possible (and common) to partition your "/" directory and "home" directory separately, and - as I understand it - the "/" partition is meant to contain system specific programs and data, while the "home" partition contains the programs and data of the various users.  However, I've also heard that most (if not all) of the programs that you install from repositories using APT are installed into the "/" directory. As someone who works with music/art programs and plays games (which can take up a LOT of space), this leads me to believe that I'll need a large "/" partition!  I've also read (from here: ) that the "home" directory is "the place where all the user-specific files, your data in other words, are stored. It is roughly equivalent to the “My Documents” folder on a MS Windows desktop". But, as I mentioned above, I intend to keep all of my non-OS-specific data (music, documents, videos, etc.) on my ~400gb shared partition, anyway. This really leads me to believe that I don't need a big home partition at all and that I should focus on partitioning as much space as possible for "/". And still, I've heard other people claim that you only need around 10gb of space for your root partition!?   Edit: Also, I just found out that programs like Steam and Wine take up space inside the "home" directory.  So, what should I do? I basically have 60gb SSD and 200gb HDD space for holding nothing but Linux programs. All of my data will be going onto my 400gb shared NTFS partition, so is it even worth making separate partitions for "/" and "home"? If I install both root and home on my 60gb SSD, how can I also use the extra 200gb of HDD space for more Linux programs? Can I expand root across multiple drives somehow, or maybe have a symlink or something that connects the two drives together?  As I said before, I'm still a major Linux newbie, so there may be something that I've completely misunderstood or overlooked. As someone who does a lot of art/music creation and gaming on my PC, I tend to use up a lot of program space quite quickly, especially since games and music libraries just keep getting bigger and bigger every year! Thanks for the help, I'm looking forward to learning more about Linux! :]
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I have a PC with 5 hard drives (SSD and HDD). One of the drives has Windows 10. In the past, I have tried to install Ubuntu and Windows using the following method so there will be no interference between the two operating systems:  I Simply removed all the hard drives, except the one that I wanted to install Ubuntu, then install ubuntu and connect other hard drives. Then select the boot drive using the BIOS.  Can I do the same thing without taking out taking all the drives?  I mean I do not like  to see the GRUB on boot, I want windows to boot as default without the need for GRUB.
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I've recently destroyed my old laptop... but I've saved the ssd. Inside there was a SSD with Ubuntu 19.04 on it and the disk is encrypted.  I've bought a new laptop, and added my old SSD on top of the one already inside the new laptop.  On the new SSD I have Ubuntu 19.10, and from there I can access the data of my old SSD but I was wondering if there was a way to make the old SSD bootable ? Maybe creating a MBR or something like that ?  In the BIOS/UEFI I can see the old SSD in the SATA disks, but it's not in the bootable options, and I've activated the PXE Legacy.  Thanks in advance
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I have DELL Precision, with 512GB SSD. I did shrink the only Drive C,  and made 125 GB of unallocated space to install Ubuntu on it.  restarting the system choosing boot, install Ubuntu, the installation process does not recognize any hard disk except the Flash memory that contains ubuntu bootable.  the information from Windows 10 side:  Dell Precision 3520 windows 10 pro Intel Core i7-7820HQ BIOS mode UEFI from the device manager; Storage Controllers:         Intel chipset SATA/PCIe RST premium controller         microsoft spaces storage controller         microsoft VHD loopback controller Disk 0: (Basic)        SSDPEKK NVMe INTEL 512GB               Partition Style GPT Rapid Storage Technology:        Controller 1, Port 0        Port Location Internal        Type PCIe solid-state drive        System Disk: yes        Controller Type: NVMe BIOS options on power up:         System Configuration/SATA Operation = RAID on (Intel RST)   I've read that the Ubuntu kernel is compatible with RST and should recognize the SSD, Also the Disk 0 is shown as basic which I think means hardware RAID.  What should do in this case to have a dual boot installation of Ubuntu
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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 am trying to install a fresh version of Ubuntu in my computer without touching the windows 10 dual boot! In the Installation Type, the first option seems exactly what i wanted to do.  My question is, is this feature is safe to use? because i don't want to lose any windows files and other NTFS partitions on the hard-disk. Please eliminate my confusion. Note as that i dont need any files or media which are in the ubuntu partition, Thanks.
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I'm installing ubuntu onto a new laptop with 24gb SSD and a 500gb HDD. I wanted to put / and swap onto the SSD and /home onto the HDD. Is there anything I shouldn't use ext4 for?  I do not ever intend to dual boot. Ubuntu only.
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what I want to do is this. I have an external hard disk drive, a SEAGATE expansion 1TB, you can take it a look here:  As you can see this is not a flash usb hard drive, it is a USB hard disk drive. What I want to do is installing Ubuntu in this external hard disk drive... BUT NOT PLACING THE GRUB ON MY C: DRIVE. In other words, I don't want to see the GRUB splash Window asking me every single time if I want to load Windows or Linux. I want my PC turn on or restart and go directly to Windows... BUT... I want to have Linux in my external USB hard disk drive How do I want to load Ubuntu then? Easy, when I restart my computer or just start it... in ASUS mother boards I have the possibility to select the boot device by pressing F8, and I get the boot menu. I want to turn on my computer, press F8, my mother board ask me what drive I want to use to load the Operating Sytem, I select the USB external hard disk drive where do I have Ubuntu, and bingo, I run Ubuntu. When I finish to use Ubuntu, I close it and turn off my computer. Later, I turn on my computer, and if I don't press F8, automatically load the hard disk drive C: and load Windows. My question about this, is what are the necessary steps to install the latest version from Ubuntu, doing exactly this. Not placing the GRUB in my C: hard disk drive, and installing it entirely in the external USB hard disk drive (normal one, not flash one).