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Question

Partition windows 10 or Ubuntu?

Jul 27, 2017 6:46PM PDT

Hi everyone, I just formatted windows 10 and since I have a dual operating system Ubuntu and Windows 10 I didn't know where to install it since I don't mean partitions so I have no idea where linux can be and so i'm
afraid of Install windows 10 on linux and lose all the data above.

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This is the link of the screenshot. Thanks in advance!

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None of those partitions.
Jul 27, 2017 6:50PM PDT

Post was last edited on July 27, 2017 6:51 PM PDT

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Do you boot from Ubuntu's GRUB?
Jul 27, 2017 8:11PM PDT

What data do you fear losing? Is it in Ubuntu, or data in windows 10?

It looks to me like you have windows 10 in partition 2 and space (67GB) in partition 4 to install Ubuntu there. That's more than enough space to install Ubuntu.