Unlike  question, I have 5  already-formatted partitions (Each are "Logical" and "N.T.F.S" style) in the hard disk, and all are being used for specific type of documents. (C drive being used for Windows)  I want to install   on the pre-existing drive D; and without interfering any pre-existing partitions and their contents. I have downloaded the ISO file. Please guide me with flow charts.
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The Ubuntu installer does not allow me to install on NTFS partitions, but certain circumstances requires me to do so. Is it possible?
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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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These are my current disk partitions. /yedek is for some personal backup files. As you can see there is only Ubuntu on my PC. I will install Windows, too. Because of this I want to shrink /dev/sda3 . It currently 546GB and I want to split it: 300GB for / and 246GB for Windows (NTFS) is OK for me.  I'm using GParted for the first time. How can I shrink /?  I don't want to lose any datas from Ubuntu.
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I've been programming for about a year and I'm very new to Ubuntu. I'm currently working on a project with a mentor who suggested partitioning part of my drive with a fresh Ubuntu install. I've never done anything like this and most of the guides I've seen are for dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows/MacOS.  I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop. I was wondering If I could keep my current setup and also partition part of my drive with a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04?
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i need a way to format a partition so that it is secure from other users on my pc. Also how  can i configure a disk in disk management to account for future redundancy?
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I am using Windows 8 Single Language 64 bit. I have > 350 GB Unallocated space in my hard disk. I want to add this > 350 GB unallocated space to C: drive where Windows is installed. I have checked using 'Extend Volume...' in 'Disk Management', which is currently disabled. Is there some simple way to do this? Kindly don't answer like backup your data and format your hard disk/drive, use third party software, etc. Kindly help me and ask for any further clarifications if needed.
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Note: TL;DR, scroll to bottom for summary. I recently set up my computer for a dual boot between Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. My current drive setup is as follows.  | A1 |     A2       | | B1    |  B2  | B3 |        A1: 100 mb, windows 7 "System   Reserved" boot partition      A2: 230 gb, data section, this one   needs to be shared between the   operating systems      B1: 125 gb, windows 7 OS      B2: 123 gb, ubuntu OS      B3: 2gb, linux swap space     Pretty much I want to have my documents, music, pictures, videos, etc accessible from both operating systems. My first attempt involved making the data (a2) partition NTFS, and moving my home folder from ubuntu to the data partition. However, as I read NTFS does not work nice with permission, and it messed up my home folder. My next idea is one of the following: 1) format the data partition to ext2/3/4 and move my home folder from linux there, and get a driver to read ext partitions in windows 7. The problem with that is that most of the ext drivers/software are not compatible with windows 7 or do not integrate with windows explorer (I really don't want to open a separate software window just to access my data, plus it's probably not compatible with other software.)  looks promising, but I'm not sure how it works with ext4 and windows 7 (not officially supported, when trying in Vista Compatibility Mode, it tells me I need to format the ext drive to use it). My next idea, 2) keep the home folder in ubuntu where it is, but create symlinks for the Documents, Music, etc folders to an NTFS formatted Data (A2) partition, and add those locations to the windows 7 libraries. I'm not totally sure how the permissions would work out, but it should be fine since it's only the documents, music, etc and not the important config files in the rest of /home/user/. Correct me if I'm wrong. Currently, symlinks is my best idea, although i'm not sure how it will work.  Any suggestions, additions to my ideas, links, pointers, whatever would be greatly appreciated. Even if it means I should reformat both my drives and repartition (2 250gb drives if you want to suggest a setup for that), I won't be too opposed if that's the best suggestion (I've gone through the format/install/format/reinstall process 5 times over the past 3 days, once more won't hurt me).    TL;DR, summary:  I have two hard drives. One is partitioned for Ubuntu and Windows 7, the second one I want accessible to both operating systems to store documents, music, pictures, videos, etc. Suggestions on how to set up the data drive.    P.S. bonus if I can get an apache server document root folder working between the two OS's as well (permissions could become very complicated, so don't worry too much about that)  P.P.S. Related question, but data viewing is one way:
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I'm trying to install Windows 7 with a 4GB flash drive, but my error that comes up is that my hard drive I'm trying to install on is in ext4. I need to format it to read NTFS. I can't seem to find any topics on how to format an active hard drive. I found a topic that explains how to move Ubuntu to a new drive, but it's a bit confusing to me.
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I am already using Windows 7. I want to install Ubuntu 13.04 along side Windows 7 in a partition that I already made in one of my hard drive but I am worried about losing the data on my drive. Is there any possibility of data loss?
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Is it possible to do a fresh install? I only have a hard drive and windows 7 ISO file.
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My machine is currently running Windows 7. I have 2 partitions: OS (C:) and DATA (D:). I intend to do a native Ubuntu 14.04 install. Assuming I format my Windows OS partition, will I have full access to my D partition in Ubuntu ?
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Basically what I want to do is install a fresh copy of Ubuntu from Ubuntu. It is an older machine so usb boot doesn't work and I don't see why I need to waste a CD to do it. Currently running Ubuntu 11.10.  I have a 1TB drive and a second 500GB drive for backup. The 1TB drive is partitioned as:  20GB   sda1 Windows XP 20GB   sda3 Free for new OS  ~800GB sda4 Data (ext3) 60GB   sda7 /home (ext4) 20GB   sda6 / (ubuntu 11.10 ext4) 2GB    sda5 swap   After researching I decided that using unetbootin was the best option. I chose Hard Disk (frugal install) and the only option for which disk is "/". That worked and I quickly rebooted into Ubuntu 12.04 live.   Chose to install and picked custom options, set sda3 for / and sda7 for /home. The installer started but hit a wall at detecting other operating systems. It was trying to mount sda6 to find out about the existing os's on the machine, for the purpose of installing grub. And it couldn't umount sda6 because that was currently mounted as cd drive for live cd. I couldn't find an option to make the installer skip this step (I could later fix the grub in 11.10).  I have another drive with 4GB free partition and if I could get unetbootin to install to there it would all work.  So my question is - how do I get unetbootin to install to a different disk for hard-disk install? (I don't think USB Drive mode will work because it will install the grub to that disk -  but I might be wrong!)  or  How to fresh install Ubuntu from Ubuntu?
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With the new Windows 10 coming out soon as a free upgrade, I'd like to know if and how I can install the upgrade on a new HDD. I assume the files needed for Windows 10 are only for upgrading an installed copy of Windows 7 or 8 and not a standalone installer to use on an empty hard drive. Or is this assumption wrong?  I have some issues booting (an older non-working version appears in the list of OS's to choose from) and I'd like to replace my current SSD, which is too small, with a new larger capacity one, while keeping my other drives intact. The old SSD will then be removed.  If more information is needed, please let me know.
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I am new to linux/ ubuntu and just downloaded the v11 of ubuntu to learn linux. I faced this "No root file system is defined" error while trying to install it. This is how I was proceeding -    Downloaded ubuntu v11 from the ubuntu.com website, wrote the iso into a bootable cd, and then got into the linux installation process on restarting; everything fine till here. In one of the screen during installation, there are three choices - install alongside windows, something else etc.. Since I have windows 7 in the C drive, I selected the first option - "Install alongside another OS".      Let me interrupt here to give my existing system details - HardDisk   size: 640GB.  Number of existing partitions - 5 C drive - label   windows - 160GB - has windows 7 installed D drive - label linux -   160GB - does not have any data E drive - label backup - 100GB - has   some data F drive - label entertainment - 100GB  - has some data G   drive - label work - 90GB  - has some data All of the above are in   NTFS format.    In the screen that follows, an image is shown with 2 parts and each part is shown to have size equal to 80GB. There is a horizontal slider in the middle of these two images, with which I can resize the partitions. The right side partition is labeled Linux. There is also an option to do 'advanced partitions'. On clicking advanced partitions on the above screen, a new screen is shown in which the partitions existing in my computer are shown - but the labels are different. I see that there are two partitions with size = 160GB each (as expected), and so I assumed that the first 160GB would be my existing C drive and the second on would be the partition which I had labeled as linux (drive D). So I selected the linux partition and clicked on proceed/ install now, and then this error was shown - "No root file system defined".. and I cannot proceed after this.   Please let me know two things here:   During the screen in point number 3 above, the image with slider was shown. Which partition (drive c: or d: or anyother) is being referred to here? Which one am I actually resizing - is it the existing c: drive which has windows 7 installed already, that is getting shrunk and then ubuntu getting installed in the remaining space? What does ""No root file system defined" error mean? How do I select the proper partition and continue with the installation?    P.S.:  I had already partitioned my drives as mentioned above, and the D drive with 160GB was specifically left free for installing ubuntu. I would like to Select D drive during setup and install ubuntu here, while still keeping the already installed windows7 in C drive.  Thanks!
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My computer came with only one hard disk drive: C. It has a capacity of 920 GB. And I have used 80 GB of it.   Now I want two drives in my computer: C and D. But I want 150 GB in the C drive and the rest (770 GB) in the D drive. And I don't want that any files that I currently have in my C drive get deleted. How can I do that?  (I can't back up at the moment, because I already installed a lot of software and customized the operating sytstem. That's a lot of work.)   Thank you.
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I have a computer harddisc with 3 NTFS partitions:  C /dev/sda1/ D /dev/sda2/ extended /dev/sda5/ E /dev/sda3/    C and E are both 10 GB and D is 55 GB.  I want to merge C and E (or rather expand C to 20 GB).  (E comes from shrinking D using gPARTED...).  I have tried to change the size of C in gPARTED in serveral ways...  Please help me!
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I installed Windows 8.1 Preview using the DVD yesterday after wiping off my HDD (I made a backup prior to that). While installing Windows I created only the partitions necessary to install Windows (System Reserved, C: shown in second screenshot). Further I installed Ubuntu 13.04. During Ubuntu installation I created necessary extended partitions (for OS, swap and home directory - all ext4 except swap). Later within Ubuntu I created a NTFS partition at the end (partition 4 in first screenshot). This was a primary partition. The objective behind this was that the partition must be accessible from Windows.  While Ubuntu disk utility reports the partitioning just fine (as below)  Windows disk management is showing all partitions as primary.   Thus within Windows I am able to access only C:! What puzzles me is one can't create so many primary partitions! How can I solve this issue?