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cant use free unsigned partition for Instalation of UBUNTU 10.10

Asked by Matus Stulrajter

Hello,

I wanted to install UBUNTU 10.10 alongside my WINDOWS 7. So I shrunk about 20 GB from my C: partition (WINDOWS SYSTEM PARTITION) and wanted to use it for UBUNTU installation, but this space is marked as unusable and I am not able to turn int into usable space via UBUNTU installer, may you help me please. I am LUNUX noob, or beginner.. THANK YOU !!!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Boot to liveCD and run:

sudo fdisk -l

What is output?

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Matus Stulrajter (matus-stulrajter) said : 		#2

where is cmd line or sth where I can execute this command?

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Matus Stulrajter (matus-stulrajter) said : 		#3

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7ef97ef9

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 10837 86937600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 13386 38772 203914240 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 38772 38914 1135448 12 Compaq diagnostics

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You may need to delete a partition as those are all primary partitions. You will need to make one an extended partition to then put logical partitions in that. You can only have 4 primary partitions on a drive

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