Wednesday, November 16, 2016

dual boot - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installer does not recognize Windows 7



I have been struggling with this for about 10 days with no luck. So after numerous installs of both OSs I now feel I need some help. I know there are many versions of this question posted already but none has worked for me so far.



My system has 3 HDDs (2*TGB, 1*250GB)and 1SSD and I want to install windows on the SSD and Ubuntu on the 250GB HDD. I also want the windows 7 swap file on a partition on the 1st 1TB HDD (correct me if I'm wrong but I think having the swap file on the SSD is not a good idea) and 3 partitions on the 250GB HDD: Root, Home and Swap. The second 1TB HDD is contains loads of files I really must not lose.




Currently, I have installed windows 7 on SSD but when I try to install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside it, windows is not recognized so I don't get that option. In the past couple of days I did have both working but I couldn't get grub to see windows and had to switch using UEFI.



ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD10EZRX-00A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 16.8GB 16.8GB ntfs

2 16.8GB 1000GB 983GB ntfs


Model: ATA WDC WD10EZRX-00A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 1000GB 1000GB primary ntfs



Model: ATA WDC WD2500AAJS-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags



Model: ATA Samsung SSD 840 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot
2 106MB 240MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
3 240MB 500GB 500GB ntfs Basic data partition



Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$


EDIT-
Using GParted, I can see the screen bellow:




GParted



I am not sure what the unknown file system on sdd2 is.



Thanks a lot in advance.



you might just have to save your data to a backup disc and reformat the drive windows was on. The Ubuntu installer cant read some windows and mac filesystems.


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