I had first installed ubuntu using wubi through windows, on my drive D, the drive contains some windows files as well, no I want to move my wubi install and make it a regular install on Drive C. MigrateWubi is a good tool I found to accomplish this task, but I am confused with the naming differences in ubuntu and windows. My windows have four partitions in total and ubuntu's fdisk -l
command shows sda1
-sda6
how would I know which sda corresponds to drive C in windows.
1 Answer
What I did is used gnome-disks utility to get the informations about the partitions, it showed me the names of the partitions and their ubuntu version as well i.e. it showed me that C was sda2
and ubuntu was on sda3
that was D.
My C drive was not a 83-linux partition so I used the same gnome-disks utility to format the partition and changed to partition type to linux 0x83
.
After setting up the drive I used MigrateWubi to migrate from D to C, and it worked.
[Added info by Editor]
One can also see which partition is which by running sudo blkid
command in an Ubuntu terminal.
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Could you give more detailed explanations? How did you know which partition was C and what was D? How could I differentiate both? Why are you using "83-linux" term, instead ext? How did you set up the drive? And, I don't know how to use MigrateWubi... how did you do it?– BraiamAug 24, 2013 at 1:13
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@Braiam gnome-disks utility shows all the information, it showed me that C drive on windows was sda2 on Ubuntu, and D on windows was sda3 on Ubuntu. Explore the utility you will find the answer. You should see help.ubuntu.com/community/MigrateWubi this shows how to use migrate wubi.– mdanishsAug 24, 2013 at 13:03
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The caveat here is that gnome-disk don't detail the partitions by letters, in fact it uses
sda1
,sda2
,sda#
for partitions on the same disk andsda
,sdb
,sdc
,sdX
for differentiating disks. If I find the same problem as you did, your answer will not solve my issue. So, please, edit your answer, and describe the entire procedure, if it's possible with screenshots.– BraiamAug 27, 2013 at 1:19
sudo fdisk -l
andsudo blkid
. Are you intending to format the partition corresponding toC:
and overwrite Windows with the migrated Ubuntu install? (Add info to question). Thanks?:\Windows
? If it's installed in `C:` you will have an unbootable system when you remove C.df -H | grep -e sda -e Filesystem
.