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Nikhil Shrivastava
Asked: 2018-10-05 13:49:15 +0800 CST

Problems in partitoning the hard disk using Gparted

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I was trying to increase the size of my Ubuntu(ext4) using Gparted, and while I managed to increase the size to 270GB I noticed that I have too much unallocated space. I am attaching the image below(sorry for the poor quality). As you can see I have created, foolishly, three ext4 partitions but the one that my Ubuntu uses is sdb5. Also, sdb4 and sdb7 are partitions for D and E of my Windows OS. Now, is this somehow possible to use all the unallocated space I have to be merged with ext4(sdb5)? I am ready to sacrifice D and E. Please help, I would be really grateful.

PS - please do not flag this as duplicate as I wasn't able to find a solution. Thanks.enter image description here

dual-boot partitioning gparted hard-drive

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  1. Best Answer

    From the comments...

    The current plan of action is...

    • backup all important data
    • move any required data to sdb2 or sdb5
    • use gparted to delete sda4/7/8/9
    • use gparted to resize/move remaining partitions except for sdb2 (Windows)
    • add 75G to sdb2 using Windows Disk Management app
    • create a new NTFS partition as a shared data partition between Windows and Ubuntu

    A better plan is...

    • obtain a proper Windows license key and install disc
    • obtain a Ubuntu Live DVD
    • backup all important data
    • set BIOS to UEFI
    • wipe the disk and change to GPT partitioning
    • install Windows
    • resize Windows using Windows Disk Management app
    • create a shared NTFS partition
    • install Ubuntu
    • restore data
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  2. There is one rule you're forgetting you cannot have more that four primary partitions... So you have to delete one partition and create a new one that covers the entire space + unallocated

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