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I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my pre-installed windows 7 pc and I want a dual boot. I have no empty partition on my hard disk drive. I don't want to re-install windows 7 and don't want to install ubuntu on c drive. I want to install on a different partition but I want to resize it. How should I do it? Please answer in steps. Also suggest the amount of space I should allocte to ubuntu 13.10.

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1.Create a bootable cd/usb of ubuntu and boot it.
2.Choose try ubuntu option
3.When the ubuntu opens search in the dash for gparted
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4.Use gparted to resize your disk
5.Right click on the drive in which windows is installed
6.Unmount it
7.Right click again and choose resize/move
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8.resize the disk and create a new partition after resizing
9.After rezing windows partition use boot repair
Follow these commands for bootreapir

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

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  • By default gparted was not present in live disk,plz add up the commands to install gparted. Nov 17, 2013 at 14:40
  • To install Gparted in Ubuntu Linux enter the following in the terminal.sudo apt-get install gparted Press ENTER and type sudo gparted for launching it from terminal
    – Dinse Das
    Nov 18, 2013 at 3:22
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I did exactly the same with my Ultrabook (Windows 8 preinstalled) 250 GB SSD. This was the only option because I didn't even get an installmedia for W8.

For every step I booted with the appropriate live CD/DVD

1.) Backup whole Disk on an external USB drive with clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php

2.) Shrinked the largest windows partition with gparted to about 100GB. http://gparted.org/download.php

3.) Installed Ubuntu in the newly created free space (New Partition for / and SWAP in this free space, used whole Partition for / (no home and var partitions etc))

4.) Repaired GRUB for dualboot with boot-repair (default settings, worked really great!) http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair/

On reboot I got everything in the boot menu! WOW!

Kind regards

Justus Gadient

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Right click on my computer>manage. then go to storage>disk management. Right click on you current partition>shrink. this will allow you to make the current partition smaller and will create free space for new partition for ubuntu installation. 20-40 GB should be plenty for simple use.

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