Sunday, August 9, 2015

windows 7 - OS on a extended partition

I have a laptop with Windows-7 installed on it. The disk currently has 4 partitions, all of type NTFS. I am sure one of them would be an extended partition as only 3 primary partitions are allowed. I can check that using diskpart on Windows-7 cmd prompt.


Now I want to install Ubunut 10.04 on that extended partition to have a dual boot system.



  1. How can I create a extended partition of my chosen size (50GB) in the current set of partitions?


  2. Can I use this 50 GB that I want to create, for installing Ubuntu. Would it boot from this extended partition?


  3. Does that extended partition to install ubuntu need to be formatted to ext2 or something. If yes Can diskpart do that?


No comments:

Post a Comment

linux - How to SSH to ec2 instance in VPC private subnet via NAT server

I have created a VPC in aws with a public subnet and a private subnet. The private subnet does not have direct access to external network. S...