This explains the hyphen in the partition name hda By looking above the table, you can see colored bars. The first one, marked in red, denotes the NTFS partition containing Windows note even the little Windows logo marking it.
Yellow color shows how much of the space is taken. The second partition has a pale gray border, which means it has no file system. The thick blue rectangle denotes the extended partition. The last bit belongs to the FAT, marked in gray and without a border - meaning it is unpartitioned. All of the above belongs to the first hard disk, which we are not interested in. Nevertheless, please note how friendly Kubuntu is. It marks everything in colors and even displays a little Windows logo to keep you from doing harm.
To switch to the second hard disk, use the little drop-down button above the colored bars on the right side. This is the second hard disk, where we want to install Linux. We can see the partitions we created earlier, during the Windows installations.
Once again, please note the partition table and the color bars. There are no color borders, meaning both partitions are unformatted. The thick blue rectangle marks the extended partition. For Linux installation, we will require a swap partition of at least MB and a root partition of at least 2GB. This means that the arbitrary partitioning we did earlier does not suit us.
We will delete the existing partitions and then create our own table, as explained in the Kubuntu installation guide. Select the extended partition by highlighting it. The grayed-out buttons on the menu above the colored bars will become active.
Choose Delete to destroy the extended partition. As you can see, the previously partitioned but unformatted space is now free. Repeat this with the primary partition hdb1 so that all of the space is free. This is explained in great detail in the installation guides. To make our system truly dual-bootable, we need to mount our Windows partition and the Linux partitions. First, we will mount hda1, where Windows resides. Then, we will mount the three linux partitions, namely hdb1, hdb2 and hdb3.
We will also format them. Reformat option stands for partitions that may have existed before and may have been formatted with some other file system. For best results, you should reformat them. A other thing is that a disk is always read from the borders to inner side. Why would it be wrong? Logical partitions are used to get around the limitation of the PC architecture that there can only be 4 partitions in the partition table.
But in the end a logical partition specifies a part of the disk just as well as a physical partition. As long as you're not using Windows boot code, which will not look down the partition table chain for logicals, i.
I suppose I just thought that any bootable partition "should" be a "real" primary partition. The way primary vs logical partitions was explained to me seemed to imply that. I am glad to hear that is not the case. Thanks guys! Join Date Jan Posts I have a doubt guys. I already have partitioning like this Install the app.
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Status Not open for further replies. So how can i change from D to C?? Follow these steps, 1. Right click on any Partition name on the display under the Volume tab.
Click on "Change Drive Letters and Path". After opening this link, a window will appear with the present Drive letter and options button below to change it.
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