Ubuntu 9.1 and dynamic disks

Ubuntu 9.1 and dynamic disks

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I bought my laptop with Win 7 pre-installed and I shrinked a partition and created a free unallocated space , but when I was installing ubuntu It called this space "unusable" . So I started reading a bit and found that My disk is a dynamic disk and that's different from the basic disk so It doesn't have primary or logical disks ( Am I right ?) . I still want to install ubuntu what should I do ?

Ahmed

Posted 2010-10-17T22:43:50.527

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You could

Install Ubuntu using Wubi method.
Virtualize Ubuntu
Convert the dynamic disc to basic disc and then try installing

If I were you, I'd probably go for virtualization method

Sathyajith Bhat

Posted 2010-10-17T22:43:50.527

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I guess those are all the valid options , Can you till me which is a suitable virtualization software ? – Ahmed – 2010-10-18T07:17:39.980

@Ahmed you can use VirtualBox - I've linked a how-to article in my answer – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-10-18T13:42:59.730

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