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Hello i am new in ubuntu. While setuping ubuntu i pressed replace windows 8 and it did. But the problem is it also deleted other partition. Now is there any way to slice my one partition into 2 pieces? I have 320GB HDD so i want to use 50GB for ubuntu and others for file storage. And is there anyway to recover the datas that got deleted during installation?

I will be glad if somebody help me out

Fandango
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  • If you need to recover data you believe may be lost, it's imperative that you immediately shut down the newly installed system and not use it. You can run from a live CD if swap is disabled. See the guidelines here. Once you've booted into an Ubuntu live CD system, please run sudo fdisk -l in a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and edit your question to provide the full output (format it with the <$> tool so it appears correctly). That should show what partitions there are, and facilitate knowing if data recovery is needed. – Eliah Kagan Aug 27 '13 at 11:31
  • @Fandango, we like to keep it to one question per post here at Ask Ubuntu. I think you're asking two questions: how to partition, and how to recover the deleted data. As for the deleted data, check Eliah's comments. As for the partitioning, visit this question: How do I repartition with GParted? – Alaa Ali Aug 28 '13 at 13:31

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You can resize easily the partition with the ubuntu live cd.

You just select Try without installing then you run the tool gparted and resize your partition to which size you want. Then you can make another partition with the free space.

To recover data lost during installation I don't know any tool.

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  • If data have to be recovered, it is critically important that the partition not be resized first. Resizing the partition with GParted before data recovery is performed might make it impossible to recover anything. – Eliah Kagan Aug 27 '13 at 11:32