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Installing Ubuntu while keeping recovery partition

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This is what I see in the Computers directory on my Windows 7 partition.

This is what I see in the partitioning menu on Ubuntu, which I am running off of a 4gb SanDisk USB drive.

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GParted:
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I want to keep the Lenovo_Recovery partition so that I can boot into it and reinstall Windows 7 if need be. I know I have to format /dev/sda2 since that is obviously Windows 7. But what is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda4? I don't want to accidentally format the USB drive.

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answered 1 Year ago ofunn · Accepted Answer

The USB device is not in the list. So you won't format it. It will be recognized as sdb (or sdc)

sda1 is the first partition created by windows to store boot loader there.Let it be as it is.

sda4, I really don't know what it is. Possibly 8GB of hard disk in unused state? You can see in windows by running diskmgmt.msc. You can keep it as it is or create a new 8GB partition or extend lenevo recovery partition by 8GB. (You can't merge the portion to any other partition as it resides after Recovery partition)

Regarding formatting.. here are some simple instruction. Hope this helps (the following considers you are replacing windows with ubuntu, not dual booting. This also delete all data in the C drive, so backup before you do anything),

Choose Something Else when installing ubuntu and selecting where to install it.(As you already did in screenshot)

Select sda2, click delete.

Now you will get a free partition, select that, click on new. Select partition file system as SWAP. Enter the required size. (A SWAP partition should be 1.5 x Sizeof RAM.) If you have large RAM like 4-6GB, you may skip this part. However, hibernation will not work without swap partition.

Click on rest of the free space, click on new, select file system type as ext4 / ext3 and mount point /

Make sure device for instllaing bootloader is set to sda (your hard disk)

Click on install to install ubuntu on that partition.