Andrew_Horwitz
August 18th, 2013, 08:50 PM
I'm more used to CentOS and wanted ubuntu for my own machine. I have a Lenovo W530 with Win8.
Before botching:
-Got UEFI disabled
-Partitioned using EaseUS before realizing that Ubuntu had a built-in partition manager.
-Tried using the top item in the Install Ubuntu menu (with Windows or something) then realized I should delete the old partition I had made before I did anything
-Deleted it and tried to expand the original Windows partition so I could work with the aforementioned top item, but didn't realize that EaseUS officially made the change on reboot.
From here, I rebooted straight to the DVD and tried to install, without realizing that I hadn't actually expanded the partition. Ubuntu said the install was successful, so I rebooted and saw EaseUS fail at trying to expand the partition. I got into Windows with no problem, tried rebooting and it wouldn't register Ubuntu, so I booted EaseUS back up and saw that what was originally a ~260GB Windows partition and ~200GB of free space had become:
-Same 260GB Windows partition
-1MB "Unknown" partition (doesn't register in Ubuntu as anything either)
-~190GB ext4 partition
-~8GB partition that it says is unused.
Those are the only new things from before this debacle. For some brilliant reason I decided to delete the ext4 partition because it said there was nothing in there. After doing so and realizing I may have messed up, I ran boot-repair and got paste.ubuntu.com/6000576/
I don't think it's possible to recover the partition at this point, but if it is I have no problem doing so. Common sense would dictate that the ~8GB partition is the Ubuntu system files and that the 1MB partition is from Grub (which after a quick Google search seems to be true). Is it safe to just format, delete, and merge those partitions into the free space, then try again? And for future reference, what's the difference between the top choice in the "Install Ubuntu" screen (install alongside Windows) and the bottom choice (the manual partitioning)?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Before botching:
-Got UEFI disabled
-Partitioned using EaseUS before realizing that Ubuntu had a built-in partition manager.
-Tried using the top item in the Install Ubuntu menu (with Windows or something) then realized I should delete the old partition I had made before I did anything
-Deleted it and tried to expand the original Windows partition so I could work with the aforementioned top item, but didn't realize that EaseUS officially made the change on reboot.
From here, I rebooted straight to the DVD and tried to install, without realizing that I hadn't actually expanded the partition. Ubuntu said the install was successful, so I rebooted and saw EaseUS fail at trying to expand the partition. I got into Windows with no problem, tried rebooting and it wouldn't register Ubuntu, so I booted EaseUS back up and saw that what was originally a ~260GB Windows partition and ~200GB of free space had become:
-Same 260GB Windows partition
-1MB "Unknown" partition (doesn't register in Ubuntu as anything either)
-~190GB ext4 partition
-~8GB partition that it says is unused.
Those are the only new things from before this debacle. For some brilliant reason I decided to delete the ext4 partition because it said there was nothing in there. After doing so and realizing I may have messed up, I ran boot-repair and got paste.ubuntu.com/6000576/
I don't think it's possible to recover the partition at this point, but if it is I have no problem doing so. Common sense would dictate that the ~8GB partition is the Ubuntu system files and that the 1MB partition is from Grub (which after a quick Google search seems to be true). Is it safe to just format, delete, and merge those partitions into the free space, then try again? And for future reference, what's the difference between the top choice in the "Install Ubuntu" screen (install alongside Windows) and the bottom choice (the manual partitioning)?
Thanks to anyone who can help.