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When installing Ubuntu, is there a way you can choose which part of the disk you want your partition to be on? I am partitioning a 2TB HDD, giving 300GB to Ubuntu, however I don't want this partition in the middle of the HDD, as it is used as my storage drive for Windows.

TomRichardson
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  • What have you tried? And remember that 13.04 is not yet released and therefore off-topic as per the FAQ. – gertvdijk Apr 06 '13 at 14:36
  • @gertvdijk Sorry - First post on this site! I haven't yet tried it, I was Googleing to try to find an answer but couldn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask here. – TomRichardson Apr 06 '13 at 14:47
  • Don't know about 13.04, but if all else fails, I guess you can partition your HD using GParted, leave a non-partitioned space where you want 13.04 to be, and then use the free space option on the installer. Unless something is really different with 13.04. – Yekhezkel Yovel Apr 06 '13 at 14:52
  • Fortunately there are many other help resources you can use for help with Ubuntu+1 problems, in case you experience others. See There's an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?. However, since this already has a valuable, upvoted, accepted answer that applies to stable, currently supported releases and is in no way specific to 13.04, we should probably not close this question. – Eliah Kagan Apr 06 '13 at 16:49
  • @EliahKagan, please check my edit. –  Apr 07 '13 at 05:56

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While running the ubuntu installer, you are given two options:

  • Use entire harddisk
  • Manually configure partition table

Select the second option and layout the disk as you like. This works best if the disk is empty. Otherwise you could destroy existing files/partitions if it's not done correctly.

eg first partition 'ext4'(300gb), second partition 'linux swap'(4-12gb), third partition 'ntfs'(rest)

zx485
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  • Thank you, I wasn't entirely sure if I would get this option. My disk is completely defragmented, so hopefully it should all be grouped together, and I won't erase anything. I didn't want large head movements when in Windows if there was a large partition in the middle, that was my reason for asking. Thanks! – TomRichardson Apr 06 '13 at 15:16
  • Remember if you move partitions all content will become erased/unusuable. To avoid that modify partitions without data only. All with data have to remain untouched/stay in the same place on disk. – zx485 Apr 06 '13 at 15:27
  • Thanks, I'll bear that in mind. Hopefully I won't need to move any partitions, and I have everything backed up anyway. – TomRichardson Apr 06 '13 at 15:41