[ubuntu-in] four window primary partition problem

[Diwakar Narayan]

Hi Alok,

If you have already installed Ubuntu, what you can do is to move all the
data to sda2 (you can access all the windows drives from ubuntu interface),
then delete all the free windows partitions. This will create the free
space to create a new partition for ubuntu in its own file system. You can
do that by 'Disks' applications in Ubuntu. Once the new drives are created,
you can move all the data from your sda2 to the newly created ubuntu
partition.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Diwakar


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <alokmahor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I have to install Linux on one friends laptop without wasting time in
> backing up or moving data here and there.
>
> the hard disk scene is
>
> /dev/sda
>    /dev/sda1  of about 100MB which is part of window 7 installation
>    /dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free
> space
>    /dev/sda3 of about 10GB which is recovery drive
>    /dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS
>
> I will use free space from sda2. but 4 primary partitions are already
> created so I cant create new partition.
>
> earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they had
> C/DVD's of window and drivers
>
> but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to take
> long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to waste
> my time in creating recovery DVD's for them.
>
> do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I
> delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important
> for laptop?
>
> or suggest me what should I do in such cases?
>
> or can we convert primary partition to extended/logical partition?
>
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