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I had first installed ubuntu using wubi through windows, on my drive D, the drive contains some windows files as well, no I want to move my wubi install and make it a regular install on Drive C. MigrateWubi is a good tool I found to accomplish this task, but I am confused with the naming differences in ubuntu and windows. My windows have four partitions in total and ubuntu's fdisk -l command shows sda1-sda6 how would I know which sda corresponds to drive C in windows.

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    Please edit your question with the output of sudo fdisk -l and sudo blkid. Are you intending to format the partition corresponding to C: and overwrite Windows with the migrated Ubuntu install? (Add info to question). Thanks – bcbc Jul 31 '13 at 02:01
  • Where it's installed your windows root ?:\Windows? If it's installed in C:\ you will have an unbootable system when you remove C. – Braiam Jul 31 '13 at 02:47
  • Have you tried mounting each drive and browsing its contents? Also, if you knew the size of your C drive you could identify it by listing the partitions and their sizes with the following command df -H | grep -e sda -e Filesystem. – Severo Raz Jul 31 '13 at 02:49

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What I did is used gnome-disks utility to get the informations about the partitions, it showed me the names of the partitions and their ubuntu version as well i.e. it showed me that C was sda2 and ubuntu was on sda3 that was D.

My C drive was not a 83-linux partition so I used the same gnome-disks utility to format the partition and changed to partition type to linux 0x83.

After setting up the drive I used MigrateWubi to migrate from D to C, and it worked.

[Added info by Editor]

One can also see which partition is which by running sudo blkid command in an Ubuntu terminal.

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  • Could you give more detailed explanations? How did you know which partition was C and what was D? How could I differentiate both? Why are you using "83-linux" term, instead ext? How did you set up the drive? And, I don't know how to use MigrateWubi... how did you do it? – Braiam Aug 24 '13 at 01:13
  • @Braiam gnome-disks utility shows all the information, it showed me that C drive on windows was sda2 on Ubuntu, and D on windows was sda3 on Ubuntu. Explore the utility you will find the answer. You should see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MigrateWubi this shows how to use migrate wubi. – mdanishs Aug 24 '13 at 13:03
  • The caveat here is that gnome-disk don't detail the partitions by letters, in fact it uses sda1, sda2, sda# for partitions on the same disk and sda, sdb, sdc, sdX for differentiating disks. If I find the same problem as you did, your answer will not solve my issue. So, please, [edit] your answer, and describe the entire procedure, if it's possible with screenshots. – Braiam Aug 27 '13 at 01:19