Partitioning an EMPTY hard drive for Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16 dual-boot from gparted
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I've always wanted to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu and have some experience partitioning but have never been able to, mainly because any time I install Ubuntu from a live disk it seems to prevent me from partitioning the remainder of the hard drive later (this is standard, whatever).
However I recently had a hard drive crash and came to realize that now I have the perfect opportunity to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu on a fresh, 1TB hard drive.
I understand questions like this have been asked before, but here I am in an ubuntu live session, trying to partition my empty 1TB hard drive to make installation easiest, and cannot seem to find a clear-cut answer for my exact situation.
Here was my plan going in:
Using gparted...
- Create /dev/sda1, ext4, 16GB for Linux Boot
- Create /dev/sda2, ext4, 440GB, for Linux home
- Create /dev/sda3, ext4, 40GB, for linux swap
- Create /dev/sda4, ntfs, 16GB, for Windows boot
- Create /dev/sda5, ntfs, 400GB, for Windows home,
- Create /dev/sda6, ntfs, remaining GB, for Windows swap
Each partition has 0 bytes preceding it, except for the first one, which has 1 MB preceding it.
First error I hit is "you can only have at most 4 primary partitions, but you can make an extended partition which can hold other partitions". Okay... That's too confusing for me, so I decided to just get rid of the swap spaces.
Now I have 4 primary partitions, but gparted refuses to apply this to my new hard drive? I really have no idea what I'm doing. Can someone give me a quick run down, similar to the bullet points above, on what I should partition my hard drive as?
I figure, then, I'll boot into Ubuntu Live and install Ubuntu next in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda2), and then boot into a Windows Live or whatever its called and install Windows in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda4).
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I've always wanted to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu and have some experience partitioning but have never been able to, mainly because any time I install Ubuntu from a live disk it seems to prevent me from partitioning the remainder of the hard drive later (this is standard, whatever).
However I recently had a hard drive crash and came to realize that now I have the perfect opportunity to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu on a fresh, 1TB hard drive.
I understand questions like this have been asked before, but here I am in an ubuntu live session, trying to partition my empty 1TB hard drive to make installation easiest, and cannot seem to find a clear-cut answer for my exact situation.
Here was my plan going in:
Using gparted...
- Create /dev/sda1, ext4, 16GB for Linux Boot
- Create /dev/sda2, ext4, 440GB, for Linux home
- Create /dev/sda3, ext4, 40GB, for linux swap
- Create /dev/sda4, ntfs, 16GB, for Windows boot
- Create /dev/sda5, ntfs, 400GB, for Windows home,
- Create /dev/sda6, ntfs, remaining GB, for Windows swap
Each partition has 0 bytes preceding it, except for the first one, which has 1 MB preceding it.
First error I hit is "you can only have at most 4 primary partitions, but you can make an extended partition which can hold other partitions". Okay... That's too confusing for me, so I decided to just get rid of the swap spaces.
Now I have 4 primary partitions, but gparted refuses to apply this to my new hard drive? I really have no idea what I'm doing. Can someone give me a quick run down, similar to the bullet points above, on what I should partition my hard drive as?
I figure, then, I'll boot into Ubuntu Live and install Ubuntu next in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda2), and then boot into a Windows Live or whatever its called and install Windows in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda4).
boot dual-boot partitioning hard-drive
asked Apr 26 at 1:13
nick carraway
1208
You don't say which version of Ubuntu; some versions need swap. 16gb is fine for Ubuntu but if you load lots of software you may not have the space to release-upgrade to the next version. I would create an extended partition for Ubuntu, then subdivide the space there (and /boot isn't needed or needs little space, but I'm sure you mean /). I would also install windoze first, as it tends to overwrite the MBR & boot loader (grub) that lets you select Ubuntu. You didn't specify version of windoze; but they don't use /home just drives (C: D:) & swap is often just a file (w version specific)
– guiverc
Apr 26 at 1:42
Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (just edited the question title, thanks)
– nick carraway
Apr 26 at 2:02
UEFI or BIOS. And how you boot install media for both Windows & Ubuntu defines whether install is UEFI or BIOS install. And then Windows install will define whether drive is gpt for UEFI boot only (with Windows) or MBR for BIOS boot. Ubuntu then should be installed in same boot mode. With MBR you only have 4 primary partitions, but one can be the extended and it then is a container for as many logical partitions as you want. With gpt all partitions are primary. Best just to install Windows first as both BIOS & UEFI want extra partitions.Windows also can only be in primary NTFS partition.
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Apr 26 at 3:46
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I've always wanted to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu and have some experience partitioning but have never been able to, mainly because any time I install Ubuntu from a live disk it seems to prevent me from partitioning the remainder of the hard drive later (this is standard, whatever).
However I recently had a hard drive crash and came to realize that now I have the perfect opportunity to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu on a fresh, 1TB hard drive.
I understand questions like this have been asked before, but here I am in an ubuntu live session, trying to partition my empty 1TB hard drive to make installation easiest, and cannot seem to find a clear-cut answer for my exact situation.
Here was my plan going in:
Using gparted...
- Create /dev/sda1, ext4, 16GB for Linux Boot
- Create /dev/sda2, ext4, 440GB, for Linux home
- Create /dev/sda3, ext4, 40GB, for linux swap
- Create /dev/sda4, ntfs, 16GB, for Windows boot
- Create /dev/sda5, ntfs, 400GB, for Windows home,
- Create /dev/sda6, ntfs, remaining GB, for Windows swap
Each partition has 0 bytes preceding it, except for the first one, which has 1 MB preceding it.
First error I hit is "you can only have at most 4 primary partitions, but you can make an extended partition which can hold other partitions". Okay... That's too confusing for me, so I decided to just get rid of the swap spaces.
Now I have 4 primary partitions, but gparted refuses to apply this to my new hard drive? I really have no idea what I'm doing. Can someone give me a quick run down, similar to the bullet points above, on what I should partition my hard drive as?
I figure, then, I'll boot into Ubuntu Live and install Ubuntu next in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda2), and then boot into a Windows Live or whatever its called and install Windows in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda4).
boot dual-boot partitioning hard-drive
asked Apr 26 at 1:13
nick carraway
1208
I've always wanted to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu and have some experience partitioning but have never been able to, mainly because any time I install Ubuntu from a live disk it seems to prevent me from partitioning the remainder of the hard drive later (this is standard, whatever).
However I recently had a hard drive crash and came to realize that now I have the perfect opportunity to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu on a fresh, 1TB hard drive.
I understand questions like this have been asked before, but here I am in an ubuntu live session, trying to partition my empty 1TB hard drive to make installation easiest, and cannot seem to find a clear-cut answer for my exact situation.
Here was my plan going in:
Using gparted...
- Create /dev/sda1, ext4, 16GB for Linux Boot
- Create /dev/sda2, ext4, 440GB, for Linux home
- Create /dev/sda3, ext4, 40GB, for linux swap
- Create /dev/sda4, ntfs, 16GB, for Windows boot
- Create /dev/sda5, ntfs, 400GB, for Windows home,
- Create /dev/sda6, ntfs, remaining GB, for Windows swap
Each partition has 0 bytes preceding it, except for the first one, which has 1 MB preceding it.
First error I hit is "you can only have at most 4 primary partitions, but you can make an extended partition which can hold other partitions". Okay... That's too confusing for me, so I decided to just get rid of the swap spaces.
Now I have 4 primary partitions, but gparted refuses to apply this to my new hard drive? I really have no idea what I'm doing. Can someone give me a quick run down, similar to the bullet points above, on what I should partition my hard drive as?
I figure, then, I'll boot into Ubuntu Live and install Ubuntu next in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda2), and then boot into a Windows Live or whatever its called and install Windows in the specified location (e.g. /dev/sda4).
boot dual-boot partitioning hard-drive
asked Apr 26 at 1:13
nick carraway
1208
edited Apr 26 at 2:02
asked Apr 26 at 1:13
nick carraway
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asked Apr 26 at 1:13
nick carraway
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You don't say which version of Ubuntu; some versions need swap. 16gb is fine for Ubuntu but if you load lots of software you may not have the space to release-upgrade to the next version. I would create an extended partition for Ubuntu, then subdivide the space there (and /boot isn't needed or needs little space, but I'm sure you mean /). I would also install windoze first, as it tends to overwrite the MBR & boot loader (grub) that lets you select Ubuntu. You didn't specify version of windoze; but they don't use /home just drives (C: D:) & swap is often just a file (w version specific)
– guiverc
Apr 26 at 1:42
Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (just edited the question title, thanks)
– nick carraway
Apr 26 at 2:02
UEFI or BIOS. And how you boot install media for both Windows & Ubuntu defines whether install is UEFI or BIOS install. And then Windows install will define whether drive is gpt for UEFI boot only (with Windows) or MBR for BIOS boot. Ubuntu then should be installed in same boot mode. With MBR you only have 4 primary partitions, but one can be the extended and it then is a container for as many logical partitions as you want. With gpt all partitions are primary. Best just to install Windows first as both BIOS & UEFI want extra partitions.Windows also can only be in primary NTFS partition.
– oldfred
Apr 26 at 3:46
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You don't say which version of Ubuntu; some versions need swap. 16gb is fine for Ubuntu but if you load lots of software you may not have the space to release-upgrade to the next version. I would create an extended partition for Ubuntu, then subdivide the space there (and /boot isn't needed or needs little space, but I'm sure you mean /). I would also install windoze first, as it tends to overwrite the MBR & boot loader (grub) that lets you select Ubuntu. You didn't specify version of windoze; but they don't use /home just drives (C: D:) & swap is often just a file (w version specific)
– guiverc
Apr 26 at 1:42
Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (just edited the question title, thanks)
– nick carraway
Apr 26 at 2:02
UEFI or BIOS. And how you boot install media for both Windows & Ubuntu defines whether install is UEFI or BIOS install. And then Windows install will define whether drive is gpt for UEFI boot only (with Windows) or MBR for BIOS boot. Ubuntu then should be installed in same boot mode. With MBR you only have 4 primary partitions, but one can be the extended and it then is a container for as many logical partitions as you want. With gpt all partitions are primary. Best just to install Windows first as both BIOS & UEFI want extra partitions.Windows also can only be in primary NTFS partition.
– oldfred
Apr 26 at 3:46
You don't say which version of Ubuntu; some versions need swap. 16gb is fine for Ubuntu but if you load lots of software you may not have the space to release-upgrade to the next version. I would create an extended partition for Ubuntu, then subdivide the space there (and /boot isn't needed or needs little space, but I'm sure you mean /). I would also install windoze first, as it tends to overwrite the MBR & boot loader (grub) that lets you select Ubuntu. You didn't specify version of windoze; but they don't use /home just drives (C: D:) & swap is often just a file (w version specific)
– guiverc
Apr 26 at 1:42
You don't say which version of Ubuntu; some versions need swap. 16gb is fine for Ubuntu but if you load lots of software you may not have the space to release-upgrade to the next version. I would create an extended partition for Ubuntu, then subdivide the space there (and /boot isn't needed or needs little space, but I'm sure you mean /). I would also install windoze first, as it tends to overwrite the MBR & boot loader (grub) that lets you select Ubuntu. You didn't specify version of windoze; but they don't use /home just drives (C: D:) & swap is often just a file (w version specific)
– guiverc
Apr 26 at 1:42
Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (just edited the question title, thanks)
– nick carraway
Apr 26 at 2:02
Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (just edited the question title, thanks)
– nick carraway
Apr 26 at 2:02
UEFI or BIOS. And how you boot install media for both Windows & Ubuntu defines whether install is UEFI or BIOS install. And then Windows install will define whether drive is gpt for UEFI boot only (with Windows) or MBR for BIOS boot. Ubuntu then should be installed in same boot mode. With MBR you only have 4 primary partitions, but one can be the extended and it then is a container for as many logical partitions as you want. With gpt all partitions are primary. Best just to install Windows first as both BIOS & UEFI want extra partitions.Windows also can only be in primary NTFS partition.
– oldfred
Apr 26 at 3:46
UEFI or BIOS. And how you boot install media for both Windows & Ubuntu defines whether install is UEFI or BIOS install. And then Windows install will define whether drive is gpt for UEFI boot only (with Windows) or MBR for BIOS boot. Ubuntu then should be installed in same boot mode. With MBR you only have 4 primary partitions, but one can be the extended and it then is a container for as many logical partitions as you want. With gpt all partitions are primary. Best just to install Windows first as both BIOS & UEFI want extra partitions.Windows also can only be in primary NTFS partition.
– oldfred
Apr 26 at 3:46
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You don't say which version of Ubuntu; some versions need swap. 16gb is fine for Ubuntu but if you load lots of software you may not have the space to release-upgrade to the next version. I would create an extended partition for Ubuntu, then subdivide the space there (and /boot isn't needed or needs little space, but I'm sure you mean /). I would also install windoze first, as it tends to overwrite the MBR & boot loader (grub) that lets you select Ubuntu. You didn't specify version of windoze; but they don't use /home just drives (C: D:) & swap is often just a file (w version specific)
– guiverc
Apr 26 at 1:42
Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (just edited the question title, thanks)
– nick carraway
Apr 26 at 2:02
UEFI or BIOS. And how you boot install media for both Windows & Ubuntu defines whether install is UEFI or BIOS install. And then Windows install will define whether drive is gpt for UEFI boot only (with Windows) or MBR for BIOS boot. Ubuntu then should be installed in same boot mode. With MBR you only have 4 primary partitions, but one can be the extended and it then is a container for as many logical partitions as you want. With gpt all partitions are primary. Best just to install Windows first as both BIOS & UEFI want extra partitions.Windows also can only be in primary NTFS partition.
– oldfred
Apr 26 at 3:46