linux - Disk partitions are not appearing separately when installing Ubuntu along with Windows 8.1

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2014-07
  • Brijesh Patel

    I have installed windows 8.1 and now I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 along with it and want dual boot OS. I have 250 GB HD and they partitioned in four drives in windows and in which one is 20 GB portion for Linux which is empty.

    But when I am installing Ubuntu with boot-able pen-drive it shows me three drives one system reserved(windows-300 MB of windows), one C: drive(of windows) and other 200 GB combined drive. So how can I solve this??

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    I have Windows installed, i wanted to install ubuntu too, but when i go to the installer, it doesn't see the existing partitions, it shows the whole 500GB of the hard drive as free space and it wants to install ubuntu on the whole hardrive.

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    I am suspecting some issue related to MBR (and GPT?), but what should i do? All i want is a dual boot win and ubuntu. Another smaller hint that is puzzling me for a while is that while i am on windows, i get the option to unmount except from any other portable hard drive or USB, the C as well! I never tried it though...


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  • Yitzchak

    I had that issue once. I was told to try another CD because there was probably a problem with gparted. Didn't work so I just manually made another partition at the "end" of the hard drive and prayed it wouldn't eat into my files. It worked.