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Currently I am using Windows 8 Pro on my system. I want to use Ubuntu or Kubuntu with windows. I tried to install both of it. During installation, when I reached the page to select the partition to install Ubuntu or Kubuntu I was confused about which partition to choose. I will provide my screenshot below. Please tell me which one should I choose. Also there are 2 more partitions shown in the partition list. I don't know where it came from. My system's hard disk has only 2 partitions.

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As I was suggested, I created a new partition on sda4 and tried to install Ubuntu 13.04. The same old problem is still there. Only 4 partitions are showing still. This is the screen shot

Can I delete sda1 or sda2 partitions ? If possible, how ?

What I also noted is that the Install alongside Windows option is not showing too. How can I solve these issues and install Ubuntu successfully ?

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  • If you delete either sda1 or sda2 you will make Windows unbootable.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 19, 2014 at 15:35

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1Mb partition is BIOS boot partition (for booting from GPT), needed to boot modern computers (hidden in windows)

104Mb partition is windows boot (also hidden)

sda3 is drive C:

sda4 is second windows partition

To install *buntu you need modern distribution such as 12.04 - 13.10. You need to create one or more new partitions to install, so unallocated space is needed. You must to resize second partition (using windows tools to prevent data loss) to get free space. Then create new partition for / mounting.

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  • Which partition should I resize to create the new partition, drive C or the other ?
    – TomJ
    Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 15:46
  • @TomJ drive D. if it has no data - you can remove it and recreate with smaller size
    – eri
    Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 18:11
  • @TomJ note about installing ubuntu of UEFI and GPT. help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
    – eri
    Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 18:20
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    The 1MiB partition is almost certainly not an EFI System Partition (ESP), which is needed to boot in EFI mode. It might be a BIOS Boot Partition, which GRUB uses to boot from GPT disks in BIOS mode, but I'm doubtful of that. I suspect it's actually a BIOS-booting MBR disk. That said, you're right that resizing partitions will be necessary and that installing the 9.10 shown in the screen shot is a bad move -- it's just too old for today.
    – Rod Smith
    Commented Feb 25, 2014 at 0:50
  • @RodSmith Ok. I will try Ubuntu 13.04 then.
    – TomJ
    Commented Feb 25, 2014 at 2:06
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Please see this question and answer on this site's sister site:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/149821/my-laptop-already-has-4-primary-partitions-how-can-i-install-ubuntu

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  • This really should be a comment.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 19, 2014 at 15:36

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