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So I just bought this laptop the other day; its a Dell Latitude e5500. It has Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz × 2; 2gb ram, 160gb hdd Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset. When I bought it, Windows 7 came with it.

After setting up Windows 7, the computer was running really slow. I thought that it might just be the ram, but when looking in the task manager I saw that the CPU was constantly running at damn near 100% the whole time. So I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04.

So I used unetbootin to install Uubuntu, then did the full install. Once I had Ubuntu on the comp.

Now I saw the windows 7 partition on the desktop, and unmounted it; because I don't want windows 7 anymore and I didn't have anything on there that I wanted.

But now Ubuntu is telling me that I only have a 10gb hard drive when I should be seeing a 160gb hdd.

How can I find and access the full HDD so that I can utilize all of that space?

muru
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Bryan
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  • From what you are saying, it appears that you installed the ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a partition with 10GiB memory space. You could try installing gparted and looking into the hard drive memory structure. I think, the other partition which earlier had window's is not getting mounted. I hope it helps. – Sourav Badami Jan 14 '17 at 17:50
  • how would i go about installing gparted ? im still very new to linux/ubuntu. would it be sudo add -apt -gparted ? – Bryan Jan 14 '17 at 18:23
  • @Bryan sudo apt install gparted – Organic Marble Jan 14 '17 at 19:55

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You can install GParted 2 ways :

with a terminal :

sudo apt-get install gparted

or graphically :

  • Open Ubuntu Software Center.
  • Type "gparted" in the search bar.
  • Click on the line were gparted in written.
  • Click on the install button that appears on the right.
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  • ok sorry responding back so late, running some other errands. – Bryan Jan 14 '17 at 20:37
  • so i have downloaded gparted. but now im stuck on how to add the old windows partition to the ubuntu partition so that its just one partition so i can utilize the whole hdd. i have – Bryan Jan 14 '17 at 20:38
  • sorry i keep hitting enter thinking the cursor will go down in the window here. i have formated the partition to ext4 – Bryan Jan 14 '17 at 20:40
  • first delete the windows partition, and then right click on the linux partition, and choose "resize/move" – dido22 Jan 14 '17 at 20:42
  • ok, and then what do i do next ? it asks for free space preceding (mib); new size (mib), free space following (mib), align to: next to each one of those selections is a menu. what should i do from there ? thank you very much for your help you guys !!! i really appreciate it. – Bryan Jan 14 '17 at 21:36
  • i figured it out guys !!!! thank you very much !! – Bryan Jan 14 '17 at 22:25