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Ubuntu 14 installation refuses to work with more than 4 gb space

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I am a beginner having a windows 7 background. I created an empty partition on my hard drive of 11 gb and booted the Ubuntu Live DVD to install it. When I tick "install alongside windows 7, the next screen with the disk space increaser or decreaser is stuck on 4 gb and wont increase when I try sliding left. So I tried the custom settings and when I choose my 11gb p[artition from there, It has many options that I don't even have a clue about such as swap, ext5, ext3, ext2. In windows seven I usually just choose the partition that I want and then it does everything else including bootloader partition stuff. So what next now?

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Wert (doushabu06) said : 		#1

I have two hard drives. The first one which is the primary hard drive only has windows 7 and puppy linux in two partitions. The second secondary hard drive has a two partitions, one is the 11gb that I created for ubuntu and the other has my files that I preserve. Both of my hard drives are 40GB each. Basically I don't want ubuntu on my primary partition OK, I want it on my secondary(on the 11Gb patition). Is there a way also to install it with the puppy universal installer rather than the installer of Ubuntu Live cd?

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Wert (doushabu06) said : 		#2

Plus I have tried also the same with Xubuntu and Zorin and Lubuntu and they have same symptoms.

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Wert (doushabu06) said : 		#3

Is it my mouse problem because of driver?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

If you want to install Ubuntu you need free (unpartitioned) space. Making an empty NTFS partition is not sufficient.

Use Windows disk manager and remove the partition to then leave freed space, you can then install to this space.

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Wert (doushabu06) said : 		#5

Thanks to anyone willing to help

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

How many partitions do you have set currently?

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Wert (doushabu06) said : 		#7

Thank you very much niga @ actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666). I will delete the partition and leave it unpartitioned without a format then install ubuntu that way.