Partitioning a hard drive?

Worth · July 9, 2013

How do you partition a hard drive? I want to split a 1 Tb hard drive, half for Mint and half for Ubuntu.

Angelus2141 · July 9, 2013

ermmm im no expert in non-windows but i believe if you install one of those OS (mint say for example) then go to whatever the equivalent of disk management on mint. Then you can partion part of the drive. Then when you come to install the other OS just make sure to select the partition that doesnt have mint on it

MdX MaxX · July 9, 2013

Burn GParted to a disc or flash drive, boot to it, and partition away.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

MPX309 · July 10, 2013

lol?

b1ack1otus · July 12, 2013

If you want to partition your hard drive on windows, click on the start menu and then right click on "computer".

there should be an option called "manage".

From there you can select the particular drive that you want to partition. Select the drive and shrink the volume.

Set the size and it will format it.

OR you can leave it unformatted.

Gob · July 12, 2013

Burn GParted to a disc or flash drive, boot to it, and partition away.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

This, or you can use the live USB for Ubuntu (used for installation) and boot off the usb (use the "Try Ubuntu First" option) and use gparted GUI. Also, I think you can partition the drive during the actual Ubuntu installation process....but I can't remember off hand.