Yesterday I was just browsing the web when I decided to install an operating system other than Ubuntu on my machine. The challenge blocking my was was that I had a continuous hard drive without any partitions, so I had to format it, remove Ubuntu and lose all the data saved on it. I was obviously not ready for that so I started to browse the web for solutions.
I came across this software called "GParted" which eventually made my day. So in this post I've discussed what all I did with GParted such that I was able to install an operating system other than my native one without removing it or losing any data even though I had a continuous hard drive.
GParted is shipped with almost all the popular distributions of Linux. You can find it in your applications if you search a bit. If searching does not works for you, look for it in the software resources (I looked in Ubuntu Software Center). You'll find it.
However, you need to unmount your drive in order to work upon this software so it is recommended that you use its live version. You can download the latest one (0.9 in my case) from here. You'll get an .iso image file to download. After downloading, write this image into a CD (its approximately 90MB in size).
This is your GParted live bootable CD. Now shut down your system and boot it from this CD. It will probably ask your preferred language, location, screen resolution etc., complete the formalities.
You can resize/move old partitions, change their filesystem type, create new partitions in free spaces of your hard drive, assign them a label and many other works.
Though if everything goes well, you'll not lose your data but it is recommended that you back up all your data before using this software, you never know what happens.
Assign all the operations you want to do with your disk and then hit the apply button in the edit menu. Works with your huge hard drive may take hours to complete, this depends on your processor speed.
When you have shrinked your old partition and created a new one in the generated free space, you can easily install an operating system on it. This will not affect your settings with the previously installed operating system or your data.
When you are finished with your work, please have some time to send us a review of your experience with this software from our contact page.
Thanks for reading.
I came across this software called "GParted" which eventually made my day. So in this post I've discussed what all I did with GParted such that I was able to install an operating system other than my native one without removing it or losing any data even though I had a continuous hard drive.
Installation
GParted is shipped with almost all the popular distributions of Linux. You can find it in your applications if you search a bit. If searching does not works for you, look for it in the software resources (I looked in Ubuntu Software Center). You'll find it.
However, you need to unmount your drive in order to work upon this software so it is recommended that you use its live version. You can download the latest one (0.9 in my case) from here. You'll get an .iso image file to download. After downloading, write this image into a CD (its approximately 90MB in size).
This is your GParted live bootable CD. Now shut down your system and boot it from this CD. It will probably ask your preferred language, location, screen resolution etc., complete the formalities.
Working on GParted
You can resize/move old partitions, change their filesystem type, create new partitions in free spaces of your hard drive, assign them a label and many other works.
Though if everything goes well, you'll not lose your data but it is recommended that you back up all your data before using this software, you never know what happens.
Assign all the operations you want to do with your disk and then hit the apply button in the edit menu. Works with your huge hard drive may take hours to complete, this depends on your processor speed.
When you have shrinked your old partition and created a new one in the generated free space, you can easily install an operating system on it. This will not affect your settings with the previously installed operating system or your data.
When you are finished with your work, please have some time to send us a review of your experience with this software from our contact page.
Thanks for reading.
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