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Installing Linux without affecting Window 7

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I have Window 7 installed on my laptop and I can install Linux (Ubuntu). I just wanted to install it with the following conditions:

At the time of booting I get option for both OS, but if I delete Linux OS it should not affect the booting process of Windows. May be it automatically gain Windows bootloader or if its Grub, its OK.

I am not aware of what is "sda" at the time of installation. Can I create "sdb" without destroying Windows partitions and install Linux in this "sdb"? I got free space in my system.

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answered 2 Years ago confiorc · Accepted Answer

Answer to question1: if you delete Linux and want to not affect the windows bootloader then the Windows bootloader would have to manage both OSs.

Question2: sda, sdb, sdc ... you see a pattern? Everyone is a separate partition, and this is their name. In windows you have C, D, E ...

To make what you are asking I would do like this:

Enter in Linux and do 4 partitions:

sda formatted as ext4

sdb formatted as linux-swap (with the space double of your ram in the system)

sdc formatted as ntfs

sdd formatted as ntfs

First instal Ubuntu, when you install you select the mout point / in the sda and then the sdb as swap partition and you install.

Then, install Windows 7 and you will see you have 4 partition in which 2 as ntfs and and probably two unrecognised. In Windows you will have the C drive where the Windows is and the second where you put your data.

Since the Windows 7 is installed secondly and because Windows does what it wants, it will put its bootloader over the Linux one.

Now I have not done lately this (2-3 years ago), and I may not be the best practice, but you get the point.