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[ubuntu] unallocated HDD

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I have installed ubuntu 12.04 on a pc formally running XP. The PC has two disk drives. The first was for the operating system and the second with two partitions for my music and photos. Ubuntu does not recognise the second hard disk and Gparted shows it as unallocated. The partitions do not show up. How do allocate and mount the partitions on my second disk. I need to be extremely careful as the disk contains all my family photos going back many years. (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 10/18/2012

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Good day to everyone. I hope someone can help me with my problem.

I have a dual boot Windows and Ubuntu system.

I recently encountered an hd0 out of disk error and wasn't able to boot Ubuntu.

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So my disk ended up being partitioned like this:

| System reserved (100MB) | Windows 7 (NTFS, 500GB) | Ubuntu (ext4, 100GB) | Swap (4GB) | Unallocated Space (400GB) |

Unfortunately, the unallocated space is not next to ext4 or NTFS partitions.

Now I want to allocate 200GB to the Windows 7 ntfs partition, the other 200GB to the Ubuntu partitions.

I have a Laptop with 1TB hard disk space. I can allocate 100GB for Ubuntu. Currently there is only Windows 7 installed.

I'm trying to figure out how to allocate ~80% of disk space to Ubuntu 12.10 and ~20% to Windows but after installation, it seems like I only have ~177 GB volume on both Ubuntu and Windows when my HDD is 1TB...GParted shows multiple partitions (3 nfts though I understand one is on the SSD?) with one of them being very large but inaccessible and protected(key symbol)?

I have a 320GB hard disk. I only use either ubuntu or kubuntu (12.04 for now). I don't want to use windows or any other dual boot os. And i need only 3 partitions on my hard disk. One for the OS and remaining two for data storage. I don't want to create swap also.

Now can i create all primary partitions on the hard disk. Are there any disadvantages in doing so.

I was trying to resize an Ubuntu partition with gparted to create a restore partition. gparted Say's the whole hard drive is unallocated. f disk shows all three partitions (Ubuntu, swap and home.) i had Linux mint Debian installed before and had problems with the partitioning.  Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling my setup?

Hi, I have two physical hard disks, one around 200GB and one 1TB. I had the large one splitted into 3 partitions around 300GB each. I used Windows XP. Yesterday I formatted the small disk and installed Ubuntu 10.4 (trying not to mess with anything in the large disk). Now from within Ubuntu I can see only the third partition of the large disk (referring as size 1TB).

Here's the situation. I was dual booting win7 and ubuntu 10.04. I only use windows for games and because of win7's overhead I figured some games would run smoother under xp so I installed xp over it.

The GParted application is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.  A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The gparted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partition.