Dealing with three Windows partitions in dual boot installation
- by Tim
For dual-boot installation of Ubuntu
after Windows. Quoted from
ubuntuguide
If a Windows boot partition exists as
a second NTFS partition, it should be
left alone. If there is a Windows
recovery partition also installed, it
can also be left alone as long as
there are only two NTFS partitions
total on the hard drive (i.e. there is
no NTFS boot partition as well). If
there are a total of 3 NTFS partitions
on the hard drive, then the third
Windows NTFS partition (the recovery
partition) should be removed after
creating Recovery CDs from it (see
here).
In the last case where Windows has three
partitions, I was wondering why it
says the recovery partition shall be
removed? Is it possible to keep the three and create
another extended partition with
several logical partitions for
installing Ubuntu and dual-booting
the two OSes?
I plan to dual-boot install Ubuntu
10.04 with existing Windows 7. Following is the layout of the
current partitions of my hard drive
viewed from Windows 7:
So must I remove the Lenovo_Recovery
(Q:) partition for the same reason
you give for the first question?
Thanks and regards!
