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I've been slowly transitioning over to Ubuntu and the Linux community as I can see so many improvements linux has over Windows. I didn't have a problem with these as I used crouton and I liked the functions it had.

Now, I want to use another HDD as my /home partition. I made some free space on the Windows end and when I went to see the partition in GNOME Disks or gnome-disk-utility and to my expense, it says it is a "Microsoft LDM data" partition of a 1 TB. I've been checking about this and nothing has shown that can help me. It's a "simple partition" and it dosen't work for some reason.

I would love some help. Thanks.

Edit: I want to keep my files in that partition.

RyanGamingXbox
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Why can't your Dynamic disk partition be read by Ubuntu Linux? Because the nonstandard LDM partitioning method created by Microsoft is proprietary, and does not play well with others.

There are multiple methods to convert your drives back to the standard partitioning method, such as the first one (only) here, this, alternative, or this one. You'll need to do that before Linux can see the drive.

However, ensure to make a complete backup of what's on that drive first, and verify the backup, before you start to make changes. Disk partition changes are the easiest way to lose all the programs and data on a drive.

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