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Asked by m-v-p

Hello.

I have bought a Samsung N130 netbook, which came with Windows 7 Starter installed. My desktop computer runs on Ubuntu only, so installing was easy. However, I would like to keep Windows on the notebook for the time being, so I have to set up a partition for Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04. Here I'm lost. Under Windows, there are two partitions :
c:/ 66.9 GB used 14.2 GB
d:/ 66.9 GB used 91.8 MB
Ubuntu set-up gives the following:
sda1 16.1 GB
sda2 104.9 MB
sda3 71.9 GB
sda4 71.9 GB

/dev/sda1 16106 MB used 10968 MB
/dev/sda2 104 MB used 35 MB
/dev/sda3 71912 MB used 15238 MB
/dev/sda4 71915 MB used 3221 MB
Which one of those corresponds to the Windows d:\ drive ?

Greetings,

Michel

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Best Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#1

What Windows calls the D: drive, Ubuntu sees as /dev/sda4.

The differences in partition size numbers are due to Windows using non-SI prefixes. What it calls a gigabyte (GB), many (but not yet all) Ubuntu programs call a gibibyte (GiB) instead. (66.9GiB = 71.9 GB.) The difference in free space (91.8MB vs. 3221MB) is probably due to the way the Recycle Bin is seen by the OSs.

The C: drive is /dev/sda3, and given that the computer had Windows 7 preinstalled, the first two are likely recovery partitions, the first for Windows, the second for drivers/diagnostics.

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m-v-p (m-v-p) said : 		#2

Thanks Marc Stewart, that solved my question.