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Installation does not show install Ubuntu alongside Windows.

I have created Unallocated space of 50 GB from disk management in Window for booting Ubuntu.

But at the time of installation it isn't showing that partition.

Eliah Kagan
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Waqas
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    did you make a partition or free space? free space is not a partition – ravery Sep 24 '17 at 10:42
  • The correct term is : unallocated space of 50 gb – Waqas Sep 24 '17 at 10:57
  • then it should give an option to install in the unallocated space. – ravery Sep 24 '17 at 11:05
  • @ravery , ur right but it is not showing that un allocated space.. askubuntu has not given me privilege right now , otherwise i would have shown you the picture – Waqas Sep 24 '17 at 11:15
  • Make sure the SATA mode is AHCI, not IDE or RAID, and disable fast startup in Windows. –  Sep 24 '17 at 11:37
  • @MichaelBay, Sata mode is AHCI and fast startup is disabled in Windows, but still not working – Waqas Sep 24 '17 at 13:43
  • Post this: sudo parted -l from Ubuntu installer in live mode, using terminal. – oldfred Sep 24 '17 at 14:09
  • @oldfred, didn't work – Waqas Sep 24 '17 at 15:21
  • If you cannot even run sudo parted -l from terminal then you may have a bad ISO or a bad write to flash drive. check ISO - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM How did you create flash drive installer? Also link on how to create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, Windows or Ubuntu, Min hardware requirements http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop – oldfred Sep 24 '17 at 21:50
  • Can you boot into a live Ubuntu session via the "Try Ubuntu" option from the bootable USB drive and open a terminal there (Ctrl+Alt+T)? If yes, what's the output of sudo lsblk -f? If no, what happens when you select that option and what do you see instead? – David Foerster Sep 25 '17 at 06:53
  • thank's everyone for response . Now the unallocated space is showing, problem was my disk was dynamic and i converted it to basic using testdisk. @Eliah kagan thanks for sharing ,that helped to solve my query – Waqas Sep 26 '17 at 05:41

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The best approach would be to:
0 - boot into Ubuntu installation media.
1 - manually divide you hard disk making a free space for Ubuntu.
2 - divide this free space into 1GB and the what ever free space still.
3 - create a new partition for that 1GB and define it a SWAP partition.
4 - create and format the last free space as (primary/logical) partition with EXT4 file system.
5 - install Ubuntu.
6 - have fun.

Nour Alhadi Mahmoud
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