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Partitioning my hard disk keeping everything and saving 20GB for Ubuntu:Possible?

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I know that if I want to use Ubuntu aside Windows 7, I'll have to partition the drives, but I don't actually know about partitioning. This is very new. I want to ask something. How should I partition my drives?

I currently have this sort of configuration: enter image description here

What I want to do:

1. No changes to /dev/sda3 (ANKITA) (That's somebody else's)

2. Utilize 5 GB from /dev/sda2 and 15 GB from /dev/sda4 and that unallocated space

3. So, I want to use 20 GB to get some Ubuntu experience.

How to do this? What are the possible dangerous outcomes?
(I'm sick of using Ubuntu from LIVECD)
Thanks a lot.
UPDATE:
I now have a better situation. I've formatted sda3 and now I want to install Ubuntu inside that drive. How do I proceed?
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answered 1 Year ago attagjump · Accepted Answer

Using Gparted always involves the possibility of losing all the data on that drive or partition. You wont harm the hardware of the drive with standard operations though. You should always back up your data before using Gparted

With Gparted you can just click the move/resize button with the partition you want selected. Then modify the before and after spaces next to the partition.

If it were me doing this, I would backup the partitions that you want to modify. Then format them and then just install everything from scratch. Resizing partitions is more complicated than its worth in my opinion.