brent20
March 27th, 2015, 03:33 PM
Hi,
So I recently installed ubuntu on an old laptop and really enjoyed using it, so now i want to dual boot it alongside win 8.1 on my main pc. It's a Lenovo y50 with a 1TB sshd. I booted from my usb and tried to install ubuntu. When i got to the part where you have to decide how much disk space ubuntu may use I got a little confused because i only showed 26gb(iirc) in total. So I figured i need to make a partition on my harddrive to install unbuntu on. Now when i try to shrink my 888gb NTFS windows8_OS partition it only gives me the option to shrink it 3897MB. I however have 535GB free space on that partition and i want to make a 150gb (153600MB) partition for ubuntu. How do I make the partition I want?
Here's an image to show you guys what i'm looking at: http://i.imgur.com/7dsCXBA.png
I've never done anything to the partitions so this is how I got it out fo the box.
I btw made a full image backup on an external harddrive just in case something goes wrong.
Thx in advance.
Brent
So I recently installed ubuntu on an old laptop and really enjoyed using it, so now i want to dual boot it alongside win 8.1 on my main pc. It's a Lenovo y50 with a 1TB sshd. I booted from my usb and tried to install ubuntu. When i got to the part where you have to decide how much disk space ubuntu may use I got a little confused because i only showed 26gb(iirc) in total. So I figured i need to make a partition on my harddrive to install unbuntu on. Now when i try to shrink my 888gb NTFS windows8_OS partition it only gives me the option to shrink it 3897MB. I however have 535GB free space on that partition and i want to make a 150gb (153600MB) partition for ubuntu. How do I make the partition I want?
Here's an image to show you guys what i'm looking at: http://i.imgur.com/7dsCXBA.png
I've never done anything to the partitions so this is how I got it out fo the box.
I btw made a full image backup on an external harddrive just in case something goes wrong.
Thx in advance.
Brent