Here's my situation:   I have one hdd with Ubuntu on it (Drive 1) and and one that is empty/formatted (Drive 2.)  What I want to be able to do is install Windows 10 on Drive 2 from using something like gparted, KDE Partition Manager, etc.  How would I do so? Everything else I have tried isn't working (Win10 install tool, iso, bootable usb, DVD, etc.). It would be nice if I didn't have to install anything extra.
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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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I have extremely important stuff on my windows partition which during the ubuntu 10.10 installation,when it said that I should create something called swap space, I selected it to be a swap space (without even knowing what it actually meant)  The Grub2 doesn't show up so I don't get a choice to boot Ubuntu or Windows. I don't get my windows partition as a removable device in Ubuntu either. When I go to disk utility and select the sda2 (i.e.. my windows partition) and click edit partition and select HPFS/NTFS for the type and tick bootable and click OK the small processing sign keep on rotating on the bottom right of the sda2 in the chart and after about 10 to 15 minutes it gives an unknown error and thus, I am still unable to use my windows.  I am even worse than a beginner who doesn't know a thing about Ubuntu so please be patient and help me out.
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I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 alongside Windows XP.  When I am prompted where I want to install Ubuntu, the three options to select from are:   Install Ubuntu alongside Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Overwrite Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Ubuntu Something else   When I selection option 1, by default Ubuntu Installer selects the 1TB external hard drive that I have connected to the computer.  There appears to be an option to select another hard drive, however, I cannot use it to change to another drive.  In other words, the drop down list does not work.  What I want to be able to do is to install Ubuntu on another (internal) 320GB hard drive that I have purchased for this very reason.  My problem here is that I am not certain how to partition it for Ubuntu using option 3.  I know that I will require a / partition and a /boot partition, however, I am not sure how much to allocate to each.  Furthermore, there appears to be more file systems to select from.  Which one do I use for each partition I create?  Also, the intended target drive is currently formatted with NTFS.  Do I need to manually delete and re-create the partition to ext2 before I am able to install Ubuntu?  FYI - My current configuration is as follows:  /dev/sda   /dev/sda1   fat16    32MB   /dev/sda2   ntfs    160GB /dev/sdb   /dev/sdb1   ntfs    320GB /dev/sdc   /dev/sdc5   fat32  1000GB   Note that the /dev/sda1 is the partition reserved for EISA (whatever that is), /dev/sda2 is the partition that contains the Windows XP Home Edition, /dev/sdb1 is the new internal hard drive that I intend to install Ubuntu, and /dev/sdc5 is the external drive which is used as a backup drive only.  For some reason, Windows XP uses this external drive to store temporary/configuration files for software that is installed on /dev/sd2.  Any help/advice would be appreciated.
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I have Windows and Linux installed on SSD, and then, I have second HDD with data. There is no Windows installation on it, just NTFS partition with data (and second partition Lenovo Recovery, but that's all and I don't need it). When I try to open it in Linux, I get folowing error:  Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/adam/Data: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2" "/media/adam/Data"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.   But there couldn't be any hiberfile, as there is no Windows installation on this drive. I need to have read and also write permission on this drive. How could I do it? Another thing I noticed is that the partition has msftdata flag, but when I open gparted and choose "Manage flags" and remove it, it doesn't remove. How to mount the partition in write mode? Thanks.  EDIT: This is not duplicate of  as there are no Windows or hiberfile.
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I'm having a lot of issues dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04. I'd like to not do anything too crazy if possible.  I need to install Windows 10, when I already have Ubuntu 14.04 installed. My Laptop is a Dell.  OK, here's what I need help with:   Downloading everything I need Making my live USB's Split partitions Installing Windows 10 Repairing Grub Fixing the UEFI to boot Grub
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I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my pre-installed windows 7 pc and I want a dual boot. I have no empty partition on my hard disk drive. I don't want to re-install windows 7 and don't want to install ubuntu on c drive. I want to install on a different partition but I want to resize it. How should I do it? Please answer in steps. Also suggest the amount of space I should allocte to ubuntu 13.10.
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So I've got 2 hard drives, a 128GB SSD, on which Windows 7 is installed, and a standard 1TB hard drive.  Now I want to install Ubuntu. The SSD has only got about 4GB of space left, and I don't really want to delete anything to make space for Ubuntu so I want to install it on the 1TB hard drive. I know that in order to do this I will have to change the boot order each time I want to switch OSes, but I don't really mind since I won't be using Ubuntu as much as Windows anyway. I've got a lot of data on the 1TB hard drive, about 850GB, but there should be enough for Ubuntu.  My question though, is if I can just make a new partition on this drive and install Ubuntu to it, without erasing any other data. If I can, can I, like I specified, also just change the OS I want to use by simply changing the boot order? Sorry if this has been asked before, but most of the answers I could find were about installing it to an empty second hard drive, whereas I would like to keep the data on mine.  Thanks in advance!
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I have gotten as far as to create the bootable usb, booting into that bootable usb and getting to the install options however i quit because I had some concerns.  I currently have a Samsung 850 evo 1tb that has win 10ninstalled. I want to dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 by installing it on a brand new unformatted uninitialized Samsung 860bevo 250gb. Should i format the brand new ssd as a new volume in win 10 and then proceed with the Ubuntu install on this volume. What else should i do? Im a first time Ubuntu user and installer.  Any and all help is appreciated.
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I have got a dual boot system here with a couple of partitions:     Windows 7 OS partition Another partition for office data One partition for Ubuntu And of course one 100Mb partition auto-made by Windows And just like Windows one swap partition by Ubuntu   Of course, I wanted to have a separate partition for /boot and /home which I have not got here, so I would like to do that if it’s possible. Can I install GParted in my system and create a new partition by shrinking my existing / partition, then mount /home under it somehow? I don't want to mess up my system. Some concrete advice required here.
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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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My machine has a SSD (fairly small) and a Hard disk (large). I want to have windows and a couple of programs on the SSD but I want to have the documents folders (such as my documents and my downloads) on the HD. I also want the default install directory pointing at the larger HD. Can anyone advise or point me to a relevent guide? Thanks.
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I'm planing to install ubuntu 12.10 in a dell inspiron 17 laptop as the unique operating system.  I would like to know how to partition the drive in  order to have my data separate from the operating system. is it better to do it in the installation or I could go with the default and then use gparted to do the job?  where can I find some tutorials on this?  I'm finding lots of things with dual boot, but I'm not interested on that.
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I have a Win/Ubuntu 11.10 dual-boot setup, where I am running the OSes on separate partitions of my laptop HDD. I assume the best method of uninstalling is 'simply' a matter of deleting the Ubuntu partitions -once I've made sure control is given to the Windows bootloader instead of grub after POST.  The question is: How do I do that?  Stuff I've tried:  I tried the boot-repair CD (), but that was a bit beyond my abilities to figure out if I could do it with that tool :/.  I also tried EasyBCD (). It couldn't identify my ext3 partitions, let alone change the bootloader.  Lastly, I tried installing startup-manager in Ubuntu, and using that to set the Win7 bootloader as default. But upon restart, it still loads grub.
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I have two drives on my computer that have the following configuration:  Drive 1: 160GB, /home Drive 2: 40GB, /boot and /   Unfortunately, drive 2 seems to be dying, because trying to write to it is giving me errors, and checking out the SMART settings shows a sad state of affairs.  I have plenty of space on Drive 1, so what I'd like to do is move the / and /boot partitions to it, remove Drive 2 from the system, replace Drive 2 with a new drive, then reverse the process.  I imagine I need to do some updating to grub, and I need to move some things around, but I'm pretty baffled how to exactly go about this. Since this is my main computer, I want to be careful not to mess things up so I can't boot.
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I wanted to take a sneak peek at Windows 7 so I thought of installing it. I have Windows Vista on my laptop which came pre-installed with it. I didn't want to mess with it.  So I created a partition (20 GB) in my USB external hard disk and tried to install Windows 7 on that partition. But when I booted from a Windows 7 DVD and selected the target partition on USB hard disk, it said it cannot be installed.  Is there any way to install Windows on an external USB hard disk?
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I have a Windows 8 system and was about to install Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot mode, when I heard about Windows 10 releasing. Now that the Windows 10 has rolled out, I would like to know whether doing the same steps as for Windows 8 would install it. I would wait until somebody else has tried it out and posted it on the internet, but I'm somewhat out of time to wait. Will it be risky trying it out so soon, or does anyone know about what would work?
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I current have Ubuntu Installed using Wubi under C:/ drive. Im on Ubuntu 11.10. Im planning a full reinstall of Ubuntu 12.04, but this time without Wubi.  I want to install Ubuntu on a Single Drive, like D:/ or G:/  Can I do that ? If I delete and make some unallocated space can I use that to Install Ubuntu ?  More Info :  Five Partitions  C: 135  D: 50  E: 50  F: 180  G: 50  Gparted shows I have Primary ntfs 135 and other 330 as extended.  I have Windows 7 x64