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Installing Ubuntu as D: drive partition on HDD [duplicate]

I want to use Ubuntu on my external hard drive by shrinking into a partition. I use both SSD and external hard drive on my PC and both are installed Windows 10. My external hard drive has 931 GB ...
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How do I install Ubuntu?

I would like to see a full how-to guide on how to install Ubuntu.
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I have formatted a partition for Ubuntu. How do I install it on that partition?

I have a formatted 55GB partition as NTFS, the other part of the hard disk has Windows 7. Is NTFS the right format for Ubuntu? If not how should I format it and with what format? Once I finish ...
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No root file system is defined

Here the steps I used to install Ubuntu. Booted Ubuntu 13.04 from a USB drive (I have XP). Everything going fine. Gave me options how to install. Chose "Other" as I have multiple drives. Gave me the ...
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Preparing a disk from Windows for installing Ubuntu (partitioning)

I have windows 8 installed. I want to install Ubuntu, therefore, I want to partition a disk using standard windows 8 utility for that. However, what file system do I have to format it to: extFAT or ...
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Dual Boot Installation with Win7 - Install Ubuntu in New Partition

Under Win 7 I created a new 100 GB disk partition (L:) to install Ubuntu 12.04. I then rebooted from the Ubuntu install CD, selected "Install side by side" and now I'm stuck. I end up at the ...
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Can I install Ubuntu on a separate HDD to my Windows installation? [duplicate]

My Windows installation is on C drive, and I want to install a new Ubuntu installation on D drive. I have some downloads on my D drive like anime and stuff (nothing directly relating to the windows ...
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Disk Space not detected

I was using Windows7 system. To install Ubuntu I created partition of 100GB. Downloaded Ubuntu installer for windows and installed Ubuntu. The system is working perfectly fine but it is showing disk ...
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Dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 7 [duplicate]

I looked at the questions regarding dual-booting with Win 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 and couldn't locate an answer. Can I simply install Ubuntu to a free partition and it will automatically ask me each time ...
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Is it OK to format these partitions in SCSI2?

I'm installing Ubuntu as a dual boot alongside Windows. I finally got a partition on my HDD (which is different than my SSD on which Windows is installed). While installing Ubuntu, I get to a message ...
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Ubuntu installation confusion

I need to know what are the things that are required to successfully install Ubuntu on my PC alongside Windows 8.1. I want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8.1 but every forum/site mentions ...
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Configuring partitions during install [duplicate]

I'd like to install Ubuntu on my computer. I have a 500GB HDD with the following partitions: (at least what the Ubuntu installer shows): / - Windows 7 (loader) - 100GB - 400GB I'd like to install ...
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installing ubuntu in a predefined partition

my 500 gb hdd has 5 partition. 4 among of them are of NTFS file system and partially occupied with data. another partition where i want to install ubuntu is of 52 gb. now i want to know in which file ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a separate drive

I am wanting to use Ubuntu for daily use and my programming contract work (basically everything except for gaming). Right now I have Windows installed on a 64GB SSD and all of my Applications/Docs/...
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Ubuntu Installation Root partition

I have decided to install Ubuntu for office, programming and GFX along Windows 8. I have made a USB - Bootstick and so on, created a 100GB partition for Ubuntu, so I wanted to install it on this ...
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