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tomihau
November 5th, 2015, 10:23 PM
Hello,

I try install Ubuntu 14.04. my laptop with win7 (dualboot). Now I have free space part my /dev/sda prox. 54GB when I use win disktools. Now when I try install Ubuntu (create partition) it says: Cannot create a new partition. There are already four primary partitions.

I think at win 7 and lenovo use all those 4.

How I can continue...

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Tomi

yancek
November 6th, 2015, 01:38 AM
You can't unless you delete one of the partitions and then use that to create an Extended partition on which to install Ubuntu. Having free space inside a windows filesystem partition won't help as any Linux needs a Linux filesystem to run. When you boot the Ubuntu installation medium, open a terminal and run this command and post the output here:


sudo fdisk -l

Lower case Letter L in the command. You will need to know which partition has the operating system on it, if it has a boot partition and what the other two are. Probably a Recovery partition and possibly some manufacturer system diagnostics.