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I just tried (and successfully I guess) installed Ubuntu (14.04 at least) to my computer (I don't know which of my 2 HDD or my SSD it installed to). I chose the install along side Windows 7 option, I can get into Ubuntu - and I'm typing this from Ubuntu . . . I can get into Windows 7 but Windows Explorer doesn't work, seems like I need to reformat again. How can I get BOTH operating systems to be fully usable with Ubuntu getting about 250 - 300 GB of my 2TB internal hard drive?

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  • Best to see details. Post link to summary report above. help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info
    – oldfred
    Jan 23, 2015 at 20:17
  • paste.ubuntu.com/9839882 is the output. Jan 23, 2015 at 20:47
  • You have Windows boot loaders in sdb & sdc, but Windows is in sda. And you have grub in the MBR of sda, but Ubuntu in sdb. I would use Boot-Repair's advanced mode and install a Windows boot loader to sda, and install grub to sdb. Then in BIOS boot from drive that is sdb. You also have a very large / (root) partition. Generally better to have a smaller / partition of 25GB and use rest of drive as /home or /mnt/data and often other partitions like a shared NTFS data partition. Your / is using 4.6GB of 1.7TB.
    – oldfred
    Jan 23, 2015 at 22:43

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Currently you have the following partitions:

  • 120GB SSD containing Windows installation
  • 2TB HDD containing the Windows BOOT partition, a SWAP partition, and a nearly 2TB Ubuntu partition
  • 3TB NTFS partition for data I assume.

What you want to do as far as I understand:

  • resize the nearly 2TB Ubuntu partition to 300GB
  • reformat the leftover place to NTFS

For this you can use a Live CD, install gparted, and set up the partitions as you see fit.

PS: And I don't know what you mean by both operating systems being usable, please elaborate in a comment.

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  • I believe it's all solved, yes Windows 7 is on a SSD, Ubuntu on a ~300GB partition of my 2TB HDD with the rest of the space (of the same drive) for Windows files). And a 3TB for my Windows steam games. Jan 25, 2015 at 18:05
  • If this has helped you, please consider upvoting and/or accepting the answer. Jan 25, 2015 at 19:43

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