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How do I fix up my partitions

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I just bought a acer aspire laptop. I wanted to install Ubuntu and dual boot with Windows 7. When i tried to do this, I accidentally deleted my windows partition altogether.

I got the recover disks from Acer, but when I tried to restore the partition, it told me it ran out of space. enter image description here

Here's my partition table. I would like recommendations. I obviously am not going to be cavalier at this point about deleting partitions, but I did clonezilla my drive off and I will again before doing anything too destructive.

My thoughts are to create one big unallocated space outside the secondary partition, but I'm not sure why the extended partition's divided up as it is.

All advice appreciated.

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answered 2 Years ago eighethod · Accepted Answer

The Acer recovery disc reinstall Windows but in a special way in order to have the less interaction with the user and to preinstall all the programs that were bundled in it.

Due to it's automatic way, it can't install windows in some schemes, even if you have the free disk space.

In order to reinstall Windows you have two choices :

Use Acer recovery disk

Look for a genuine microsoft windows 7 with the exact same language and edition (some friend of yours must have one ....)

For the part 1 :

Backup your personal Data (windows partitions and Linux partitions)

Run Ubuntu Live CD and install gparted

Remove every single partition on the disk (ntfs, ext4, extented, ...)

Proceed with the acer disk

Proceed with ubuntu installation

For the part 2 :
- Backup your personal Data (windows partitions and Linux partitions)
- Run gparted and delete both ntfs and shrink the extended partition in order to leave 0Mb free inside it and everything outside.
- Proceed with the Windows disk and put your licence that is hidden below or below the battery
- Proceed with the Ubuntu Live for repairing the dual boot
- Done, you kept at least your ubuntu intact instead of deleting eveything

Best regards,