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I've been slowly transitioning over to Ubuntu and the Linux community as I can see so many improvements linux has over Windows. I didn't have a problem with these as I used crouton and I liked the functions it had.

Now, I want to use another HDD as my /home partition. I made some free space on the Windows end and when I went to see the partition in GNOME Disks or gnome-disk-utility and to my expense, it says it is a "Microsoft LDM data" partition of a 1 TB. I've been checking about this and nothing has shown that can help me. It's a "simple partition" and it dosen't work for some reason.

I would love some help. Thanks.

Edit: I want to keep my files in that partition.

RyanGamingXbox
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    Use gparted and format the partition to what you need. – Pilot6 Nov 22 '19 at 13:35
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    I don't want to delete my games that are stored on that partition. I should have labeled it better. – RyanGamingXbox Nov 22 '19 at 13:35
  • No problem: you can at any time edit your question to improve clarity or add relevant information. – vanadium Nov 22 '19 at 13:57
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    This is not "Simple partitions". You apparently use "Windows Dynamic Disks", which is not anymore simply a Windows partition. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8427372/windows-spanned-disks-ldm-restoration-with-linux to see how one can access such partitions using ldmtool. – vanadium Nov 22 '19 at 14:02
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    Sorry, about that. But it's too complicated. Like I said, I'm new. Sorry, I need to be spoonfed this info. More of this complexity is making me want to just re-download all my games. – RyanGamingXbox Nov 22 '19 at 14:28
  • You can't "keep your files" on the partition and install Ubuntu there. – Pilot6 Nov 22 '19 at 14:29
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    @Pilot6 Sorry, if you did not understand. But I have Ubuntu, I am using Ubuntu right now. I wanted just to move my /home into a drive that I don't use that much and it has 1 TB of storage. I know how to, but Ubuntu can't understand it. I'm gonna test out K7AAY's solution for now. – RyanGamingXbox Nov 23 '19 at 04:13
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    @user68186 I know that but I made some free space for Ubuntu to make a new ext4 partition. – RyanGamingXbox Nov 23 '19 at 04:29
  • Would you please be so kind as to boot into Windows, right-click on the Start icon, choose Disk Management, take a screenshot, upload that to a free image host site like http://imgur.com , then click [edit] and add the link to that into your question? I'd like to see all the detail about that drive you want to repartition. – K7AAY Dec 03 '19 at 17:34

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Why can't your Dynamic disk partition be read by Ubuntu Linux? Because the nonstandard LDM partitioning method created by Microsoft is proprietary, and does not play well with others.

There are multiple methods to convert your drives back to the standard partitioning method, such as the first one (only) here, this, alternative, or this one. You'll need to do that before Linux can see the drive.

However, ensure to make a complete backup of what's on that drive first, and verify the backup, before you start to make changes. Disk partition changes are the easiest way to lose all the programs and data on a drive.

K7AAY
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