Humber
May 22nd, 2012, 03:02 AM
My 2nd HD (drive D in Windows) is currently formatted at 100% NTFS. Since I'm using maybe 15% of it's total space, I tried creating the 3 partitions Ubuntu needs (primary, boot and swap). Not only wouldn't Ubuntu create partitions on it, but it even said the size I selected for the root partition (20,480 mB) was way too small.
I'm thinking all this may be due to a situation where I have to shorten the size of the NTFS partition so that the part where Linux goes becomes "free" or "unpartitioned", and do so with some other software. After this is done, can I create the 3 partitions and install Ubuntu on that space? Also, what program(s) can I use to do this? Hopefully it'll something Windows based since Ubuntu is now on a flashdrive.
Finally, does all the stuff now on the NTFS partition have to be moved to another drive and put back into the remaining NTFS space?
I'm thinking all this may be due to a situation where I have to shorten the size of the NTFS partition so that the part where Linux goes becomes "free" or "unpartitioned", and do so with some other software. After this is done, can I create the 3 partitions and install Ubuntu on that space? Also, what program(s) can I use to do this? Hopefully it'll something Windows based since Ubuntu is now on a flashdrive.
Finally, does all the stuff now on the NTFS partition have to be moved to another drive and put back into the remaining NTFS space?