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[Tom <question76237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76237 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/76237

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, given that Ubuntu is not showing up as having been installed
anywhere on your main physical hard-drive and there's a bit of wonkiness
going on we can safely tidy up that main drive and perhaps install
Ubuntu to that.

On sda right-click on the sda3 and delete it and then click "Apply"
That should give you a 36Gb unallocated space we can use.  Right click
on that and create a new partition of about 10Gb, make sure it's a
"primary partition, not an extended one, and set it's "file-system" to
"ext3" (sorry the names are so similar but they are different things in
different boxes).  This will be the main place for Ubuntu and will have
the OS and the programs.  10Gb is plenty, gparted will carefully make an
8Mb gap as a buffer zone between Windows and Ubuntu :)  Then create
another new partition that fills up the entire rest of the drive, make
this one an "Extended partition" rather than another "Primary" one.
Notice that this is quite different because it's hollow and allows us to
put other partitions inside it.  Drives can only really have 3 Primary
partitions and 1 Extended but the extended allows us to have many more
partitions than we would be allowed otherwise.  Inside it make another
partition, this one will have to be a "Logical" partition because we
cant have any more primary one but that's ok.  Make this one equal to or
larger than your ram size, about 5Gb should be fine if you're not sure.
Make it's 'file-system' "linux-swap".  Then finally make another
partition filling the rest of the space and make this a new ext3, again
it will be a "Logical partition" - this one will be for "/home" which
contains all your data & settings, as well as any Windows programs you
try to install using Wine ;)

Please let me know when this is done or let me know if you have troubles
sorting this.  Either way i should be able to help you get through ;)
The toughest challenges in linux tend to be at the start before we've
really had chance to learn anything about it.  You'll be fine though :)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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