installation ubunto 14.01 on a different partition with windows 8.1

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Published on 2014-08-23T21:00:18Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 22:34 UTC
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Please assist me. I am eager to install Ubunto 14.01 on a different partition but I do not know how to do it. I have HP with windows 7 pre-installed then I upgraded to windows 8.1

please show me how to make a dedicated partition to install ubuntu 14.01. please find the partition that I have. I appreciate your help on a

I have : partition : /dev/sda1 NTFS label system 922.50KB /dev/ sda2 NTFS 199.00MIB flags : boot /dev/sda3 NTFS label receovery 488.77 GB /dev/sda4 unknown 16 GB unallocated 1 MIB

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