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So I've used Ubuntu before, maybe a few years back and I don't remember it being this difficult to install. Anyway I put Ubuntu 14.10 on a flash drive with pendrivelinux, that part is done, no issues.

I fragmented the disk, and I set aside a 20 GB partition for Ubuntu so I can dual boot. Booted back into windows twice just so it could recognize what I did. Went to install 14.10 and the partition I made didn't show up during install. I only get the prompt to erase hard drive or do a manual partition with Ubuntu.

There is a 21.5 GB space that says unusable when I go with that, but I don't want to mess anything up with my Windows. This should be simple.

Eric Carvalho
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Ysr7
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Based on the screenshot you posted I think that the problem is that there may be only 4 primary partitions on your hard drive and you already have all of them there. Therefore you cannot just easily install Ubuntu because the installation script cannot make any new partition and it do not know what to do so it just offers you only possible solutions. In my opinion you have to delete one manually (and then you can add new extended partition instead) in order to install Ubuntu with "one click".

All operations with partitions can be made with gparted or during installation. But be aware that your data may be lost - backup!

honza-kasik
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As Byran correctly said, the problem is that you have 4 partitions already. It's a problem that I also met when I installed a Linux OS alongside Windows because I had for Windows the boot partition, the local drive C, local drive D and local drive E. The solution was to delete one local drive and after that I installed the Linux OS.

So the advice is to delete manually one partition.

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