Thursday, November 23, 2017

dual boot - installing 64bit 12.04 LTS along with 32bit window 7

I am facing issues with installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64 bits) alongside Windows 7 (32 bits).



My machine is Intel i5. My current Windows partitions are:




  • C: Drive of 50 GB


  • D: Drive of 195 GB

  • E: Drive of 221 GB

  • System Reserved of 100 MB.



I tried to USB boot and install Ubuntu, during the installing process I could see 3 options:



a) install inside Windows 7 b) Erase c) Something else.



I choose "something else" and when proceeded, I could't find all my Windows partitions.




Given below is my fdisk -l report:



Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3e025634


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 2047 992+ 42 SFS
/dev/sda2 * 2048 206847 102400 42 SFS
/dev/sda3 206848 102402047 51097600 42 SFS
/dev/sda4 102402048 976771119 437184536 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0 GB, 32015679488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3892 cylinders, total 62530624 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4da96a7f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 32 62530623 31265296 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


listing below is my parted -l command report.



Model: ATA Hitachi HTS54505 (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos



Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 1049kB 1016kB primary ext2
2 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
3 106MB 52.4GB 52.3GB primary ntfs
4 52.4GB 500GB 448GB primary ntfs




Model: SanDisk Cruzer Force (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos



Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 16.4kB 32.0GB 32.0GB primary fat32 boot, lba



I also tried to execute the command "sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda". for which i got error message like "no raid disks and with names: "/dev/sda".




How should I proceed?

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