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I have a laptop. In said laptop I have windows 8.1 and 4 partitions.

My partitions list are as follows:

  1. System Partition - Size:350 MB - simple driver

  2. Driver C (My windows 8.1) - Size:150 GB - simple driver

  3. Driver D - Size:390 GB - simple driver

  4. Driver E - Size:390 GB - simple driver

When I install Ubuntu on my laptop, my partitions are:

  1. Unknown - Size: 1 MB because I install Ubuntu with my flash.

  2. Unknown - Size: 350 MB

  3. sda1 - Size: 150 GB

  4. sda2 - Size: about 800 GB

I want install Ubuntu on driver E or D but I can not see my drive E or D and drive D and E are sda2.

Amin
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    You did automatic partitioning during the Ubuntu setup? – Manuel Sep 22 '13 at 07:57
  • I do not use automatic setup. I use flash to install,too. – Amin Sep 22 '13 at 08:13
  • And you want us to do the matching between both partition lists you gave? – Manuel Sep 22 '13 at 08:51
  • No, I want install Ubuntu on my system on driver E, But I can not see my driver E. – Amin Sep 22 '13 at 08:55
  • Take a look at your partitions with gparted (boot with the live CD - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php ) and look how this partitions are formatted. – Julien Chau Sep 22 '13 at 09:24
  • Where exactly is Ubuntu showing you these Unknown partitions? Is this before the installation, or after the installation? Can you please take a screenshot? If you can't, just take a photo with your mobile phone. Upload your photo to http://imgur.com and give us the direct link. – Alaa Ali Sep 22 '13 at 15:40
  • Sorry not to directly answer your question as per the rules, but your question does need some clarifications. Where did you get those partitions list from ? Is Ubuntu already up and running, or do you run it from a live flash drive ? – user195199 Sep 22 '13 at 18:36

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In ubuntu, partitions are not named with alphabets like in windows. From what you have revealed, it seems that you rather have a single perhaps 1TB drive, that was split up into multiple partitions. This single drive shows up in ubuntu as /dev/sda, where /dev/sda1 will be the first partition, /dev/sda2 will be the second partition and so on...

It is risky to propose a new partitioning scheme without risking your data and existing windows installation, so I would advise you find someone (your local Linux user group perhaps?) or a friend who is a bit more familiar with this to assist you.

Otherwise, generally, the Live CD/USB Stick with automatic partitioning does a pretty good job of not messing you your system. You could give that a shot.

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