I accidentally put Ubuntu on my Partition that is 3/4 of my Hard Drive?

Question

OK, So I just downloaded Ubuntu to be put on my other partition(I have a C: and a D: drive) So stupid me had a brain fart and ended up not making a new partition and putting Ubuntu on the D: drive which was 3/4 of my total hard drive. So now I have 120 GB for Windows and 350 GB for Ubuntu. So I went to Gparter on Ubuntu and tried to open it and it had an error before it even opened. And when I first went in to Ubuntu it had like 2 things pop up with errors. So I went back to Windows 7 and tried to use the partitioner there and it wouldn't let me expand my C: drive. What am I supposed to do?

Answer 1

Did you put Ubuntu on an NTFS partition? If yes, then that's the cause of the errors. Ubuntu should go on an ext3 or ext4 partition.



So, if Ubuntu is on an NTFS partition, delete it and reinstall it, this time doing it the way you want.



If Ubuntu is on an ext3 or ext4 partition, try using the partition manager that's in the Ubuntu CD.

Answer 2

You can't format a disk that your running the OS off of. Boot from the live enviroment from the install cd/flash drive. Then run GParted (install first if needed, it'll just install into swap space) and shrink you Ubuntu install to make free space contiguous to the windows partition. Then boot into windows and use that partition manager to expand the drive. I highly recommend against modifying the partition that windows boots from except from a partition manager running and windows and aware of all the little bits that need changed for windows not to panic with filesystem addresses shift around.



The windows partioner doesn't know how to read ext partitions and thus won't do any re-sizing operation on them to be on the safe side.

Answer 3

he button can only "do something" IF the partition exists.



Are you sure about it? I did a clean install of gusty and when asked by partitioner, I said "use whole disk", so I would expect all strange partitions to have been removed, and yet MediaDirect button did what it did.



Right now I seem to have three partitions: sda1 is main, sda5 is swap and sda2 is mbr (this info is according to `disktype'). Do you think this makes me safe from MediaDirect?

Answer 4

you could try to completely remove ubuntu from ur hard drive, then reinstall it using the proper settings you want.



This is on how to uninstall ubuntu.. Its the ubuntu forums...





http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=113630