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How to install Ubuntu on empty disk space along side Win7?

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I have a computer that is partitioned between Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. Long story short, I wanted to make a fresh install of 12.10, so I copied all of my personal data from 12.04 over to my Win7 partition, the deleted the partition that had 12.04 on it:

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What I want to do now is install Ubuntu 12.10 on all of the empty disk space. Thus I open the installer, and I am presented with the option to install over the entire HDD, or "Something Else". I click on something else, and I am presented with this window:

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How do I use this window to install Ubuntu 12.10 over the rest of the unallocated/free space on my HDD? I have no idea how to do it....

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answered 3 Years ago ntlesslving · Accepted Answer

Depending on your desired partition setup, just click on the free space and click the "+" to add a swap partition of whatever size you want, and then click the "+" again to create a / partition (probably with the default ext4 file system, unless you want something specific from another file system) filling the rest of the drive (or split your / and /home into separate partitions if you'd like to preserve your data should you need to reload Ubuntu).

After it's installed, you'll be presented with a Grub menu to choose to boot Ubuntu or Windows.