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I am using a company's laptop which has a single partition. Only 900 MB is achieved after shrinking using disk management tool in windows.

I tried to install both 13.04 and 12.04.3 versions. But none of them showed the traditional option of installing Ubuntu alongside Windows. The reason I can't mess with company's laptop and I am dying without Ubuntu.

I hope that somebody can help me resolve this problem.

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900M is too small for an Ubuntu desktop install. You would be better off with a persistent USB or a full install to USB (still can be done on a 4G stick without swap). USB3 sticks would be ideal, but USB2 sticks work OK, with some performance reduction.


If you have msdos partitioning, you are limited to only 4 primary partitions, and if you already have 4, you cannot create anymore, so maybe the side by side option is not offered. You would need to backup a partition, delete it, then remake it and all free space as an extended partition, into which you may add logical parititions as needed. Ubuntu does not care if it is on a logical partition. But if you really don't have the room anyway, why bother.

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  • thanks. I guess it is due to active bitlocker on partition. Do you have any idea ? Sep 12, 2013 at 4:43
  • one more thing. usb is okay but i had like to install on my HDD only. Also somebody please tell me, what can be possible reason for ubuntu to not showing option of installing Ubuntu alongside Windows. Thanks. Sep 12, 2013 at 4:46

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