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I am trying to dual boot ubuntu on my old laptop. I've been using it in a VM and want to put my laptop to good use. My drive already has 3 partitions and when I try to make the two partitions on ubuntu install it says unusable space. These are the three used partitions in windows: image. Can I remove any of these and if I can how?

potatoOnABus
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    No. You will need to create an extra partition in the 736 GB of unallocated space (see lower right corner). – Jos Dec 07 '20 at 16:19
  • @Jos What do I do with the extra partition? – potatoOnABus Dec 07 '20 at 16:21
  • Well, install Ubuntu in it? BTW it's easier if you boot from a live media and install Ubuntu from there, including creating a new partition. From the desktop, choose Install and when it asks where you want to install Ubuntu choose "Something else". – Jos Dec 07 '20 at 16:26
  • @Jos my drive can only support two partitions and I want to make seperate home and root partitions – potatoOnABus Dec 07 '20 at 16:31
  • See this answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/810390/unallocated-space-for-ubuntu-shown-as-unusable-rather-than-free-space – Jos Dec 07 '20 at 16:33
  • @Jos the post says delete one partition. My question is what partition do I delete? – potatoOnABus Dec 07 '20 at 16:35
  • I wouldn't advise you to touch the existing partitions. They might contain Windows data for all we know. – Jos Dec 07 '20 at 16:37
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    You don't need to delete any partition. Instead, create an `extended` partition in the unallocated space. Inside the extended partition you can then create as much logical partitions as you need. – mook765 Dec 07 '20 at 16:38
  • @Jos oh, I actually understand what to do thanks – potatoOnABus Dec 07 '20 at 16:45

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