installing ubuntu onto other drive partitions

[ActionParsnip]

Yeah the whole misnaming of "drives" in Windows is very annoying and inaccurate.
Linux cannot be installed into NTFS so you'll need to make some room for the OS. If you use the Windows disk manager and shrink one of your NTFS partitions then you can tell the installer to use the free space for Ubuntu. I suggest about 40Gb to be comfortable. Depends what you want to use Ubuntu for. Obviously more space is better.
As stated before, run a final full backup of the data you need as you are making a huge change to the system.

[torrtoise]

I have 1 40 and 1 60 gb partition, that I was planning on putting together.

[torrtoise]

Yeah the whole misnaming of "drives" in Windows is very annoying and inaccurate.
Linux cannot be installed into NTFS so you'll need to make some room for the OS. If you use the Windows disk manager and shrink one of your NTFS partitions then you can tell the installer to use the free space for Ubuntu. I suggest about 40Gb to be comfortable. Depends what you want to use Ubuntu for. Obviously more space is better.
As stated before, run a final full backup of the data you need as you are making a huge change to the system.

Sorry, I didn't know Windows named them differently. Sounds dumb. Thanks, though.

[indirbak]

thank you this information. I want to install usb. how do ı install?

[torrtoise]

Also remember that when Windows mentions Disks, eg C:/ and D:/ etc etc it usually means partitions, not drives at all, totally confusing those of us who don't use Windows any more and use Linux only.

Once you have booted to a live Ubuntu system as recommended by grahammechanical open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and run command

sudo fdisk -l

then copy back here all of the output you see by highlighting the text in terminal with the mouse, right clicking and choosing Copy, then coming back here to paste it into your reply.
Please use Code-Tags for terminal output as it makes that output much more easily read and understood, formatting the text as seen in terminal, not as plain text when it is copied and pasted. See my signature below for a How-to

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/loop0: 2.06 GiB, 2213470208 bytes, 4323184 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop1: 55.45 MiB, 58142720 bytes, 113560 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop2: 32.27 MiB, 33841152 bytes, 66096 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop3: 51.04 MiB, 53522432 bytes, 104536 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop4: 218.99 MiB, 229629952 bytes, 448496 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop5: 64.77 MiB, 67915776 bytes, 132648 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: WDC PC SN720 SDAPNTW-512G-1006          
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7A42623D-EFB7-4570-AD4D-2D1B6C2E7249

Device             Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048     534527    532480   260M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2    534528     567295     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3    567296  874428095 873860800 416.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 874428416  875640831   1212416   592M Windows recovery environmen
/dev/nvme0n1p5 875640832 1000212479 124571648  59.4G Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sda: 28.91 GiB, 31042043904 bytes, 60628992 sectors
Disk model: USB DISK 2.0    
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00ff1d34

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *     2048 60628991 60626944 28.9G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


Disk /dev/sdb: 14.84 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Disk model: MassStorageClass
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        8192 31116287 31108096 14.8G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Does that work?

[grahammechanical]

@indirbak

Please start your own thread and then we can give advice that is relevant to your situation and needs. I have learnt a lot from reading threads in this forum. In my second post in this thread I gave links to ubuntu.com that held instructions on how to do what you want. Or, go to ubuntu.com and click on Downloads and a page will open that will give you links to the information you ask for. For advice specific to your needs, please, open your own thread.

Regards

[torrtoise]

Okay, slight update: I'm typing this from a live USB. I formatted my partition with the fdisk command (I sincerely hope that works). Now, how do I choose it if I run the installer?

[westie457]

Before you go any further, which partition did you format?
Your previous post did not show any Linux partitions.
Please post another

sudo fdisk -l

[ajgreeny]

Well, you have only the one drive in the machine, probably a Western Digital 500G SSD

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: WDC PC SN720 SDAPNTW-512G-1006

and two USB drives detected.

If you decide to dual boot you will need to shrink one of the current partitions on the SSD, the largest being /dev/nvme0n1p3 at 416.7G, but I do not know enough about Windows to be sure that is the one to shrink. I will leave others to advise you on that.

However, whichever partition you do eventually shrink, leave it as unallocated free space, and do not attempt to create a new partition in that free space while running Windows, as it may create a Windows dynamic partition, totally unusable by Linux.

[tea for one]

Device             Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048     534527    532480   260M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2    534528     567295     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3    567296  874428095 873860800 416.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 874428416  875640831   1212416   592M Windows recovery environmen
/dev/nvme0n1p5 875640832 1000212479 124571648  59.4G Microsoft basic data - Is this for Ubuntu?

You have 59.4GB for Ubuntu?
You originally mentioned 100GB and it is not visible?

Please spell out exactly where you wish to install Ubuntu?
Have you already backed up your Windows personal data - this is essential?