4 partitions, which to delete?

Question

I have these partitions, and I need to delete one to install Ubuntu

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Dev SDA 1, NTFS, windows 7 (loader) Dev SDA 2, NTFS, windows 7 recovery environment (loader) My main windows partition SDA 3 15090 MB Same name as SDA 2 SDA 4 Says nothing.

Yes, I want to dual boot.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 19:06

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Try sudo fdisk /dev/sda , then "p" and enter this will show you all table then "d" for delete, select range (1 to 4) Or you can install gparted by sudo apt-get install gparted.

answered Oct 23 '14 at 19:06

Purnendu Nath

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Add lsblk to your answer, too, for listing partitions – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Oct 23 '14 at 19:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 19:12

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If you are planing to install Ubuntu along with windows7 then login windows 7 and from disk management create 15 to 20GB of space that was not partitioned in windows(by shrinking the already available partition). Insert Ubuntu installation disk by selecting cd drive as primary boot device. While installing it will ask you to select the partitions listing as you mentioned above. From there select the partition mostly SDA 4 and try installing OS by default mode. Where the installer itself will create swap and other required bootable partitions.

Please check the below URL for details instruction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86KHkeBpsbA&noredirect=1

answered Oct 23 '14 at 19:12

BDRSuite

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Sda4 is HP Tools, is it safe to delete? – Nyanical Oct 23 '14 at 19:21
NO don't delete it. Shrink any storage disk like D drive and create some unallocated space in disk from disk management. Then try installing ubuntu selecting that unallocated space. – BDRSuite Oct 23 '14 at 19:25
It just says unusable the free space. – Nyanical Oct 23 '14 at 19:29
Help? Its unusable? – Nyanical Oct 23 '14 at 19:39
This is the common issue in HP laptops.
I have copied work around for your case from our forum itself. try the below.
– BDRSuite Oct 23 '14 at 19:42
What do I do then? – Nyanical Oct 23 '14 at 19:43

4 partitions, which to delete?

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