Originally Posted by
npinn001
I have a Windows 8 laptop which is frustrating me no end. Windows 8 frustrates me and I hate this secure boot nonsense.
I'm going to be installing a copy of windows 7 over it, but when I look at it there are about 10 partitions in all (its a lenovo).
I want to be able to have a 100GB Win 7 Partition, and then install Ubuntu straight after it.
I want to split up the remaining 400GB between an Ubuntu partition and then a storage space for videos and files etc, which Win 7 can access.
My question is, do I need a boot partition when putting Win 7 on there to be able to dual boot, ie:
Boot 1000MB
Win 7 100GB
Ubuntu 20GB
Home 50GB
Swap 4GB
Storage 300GB
Or something like that?? What would you suggest?
I have some followup questions before I answer yours.
1. Does you computer boot in EFI mode? I suspect it does.
If it does boot in EFI mode then you will need a 500mb FAT32 partition with 'boot' flag.
If you have a Ubuntu DVD/USB then boot with it and 'Try Ubuntu without installing". Open Terminal [Ctrl + Alt + T], run the following commands and post its output here:
Code:
sudo parted -l
sudo fdisk -l
The output will tell us what you have and we may help you further.
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