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Install Ubuntu on second physical disk

Asked by Boštjan Čadej

I have three drives in my computer. On one is Windows 7, on another data and third one is currently empty.

I would like to install Ubuntu on empty drive. Do I need to know anything beforehand? Will Ubuntu installation process guide me? I’m newbie in linux.

In one month time I will format my Windows 7 drive and install Windows 8 on it. Will dual boot work after that?

Thank you for assistance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

By empty do you mean partitioned and formatted but with no data, or do you mean partitionless?

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Boštjan Čadej (bostjan-cadej) said : 		#2

Formated and partitionless.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

That's impossible. It cannot be both. It either has a partition which is formatted (default to NTFS in Windows), or has no partition at all (a none-partitioned drive cannot be formatted).

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Boštjan Čadej (bostjan-cadej) said : 		#4

It has been formatted in Windows to FAT32. It has no data on it.
Sorry for misinterpretation I’m not a programmer, so it looked to me that it has no partitions. I guess it has one partition.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Then it's formatted with no data. Delete the FAT32 partition as it is of no use to you at all. The installer will then see the free space and install to it. You don't need to be a programmer in any way to know about partitions. May engineers working on servers to make things work for companies understand partitions and are not programmers.

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