So I added a 80GB hard drive to my computer a few months back and I created two partitions on it. A roughly 50GB partition for my linux installation, and a 30GB NTFS partition for extra space in windows, which is installed on my primary hard drive. A friend helped me install ubuntu and things went well, until i did a lot of screwy things to my OS, simply because i was new and getting used to it. I did a butchered job of trying to convert it to a mac and then back \(O_o)/. I now want to install fedora over ubuntu but preserve the other partion (NTFS) on the second drive. Problem is, I'm not quite sure which option to select when installing (fedora). And the last thing I'd want to do is screw up my windows partition. x_x I don't know which option to select at this screen to allow my to, install over the ubuntu partition but not the other data partition. I know to select "sdb" and not "sda". Unfortunately, I cannot find a list of the options right now, unless i were to load my live CD. [img]https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/4/4b/Tours_Fedora10_008_Install_Partition.png[/img] Any help would be very much appreciated. I'm very protective of my windows partitions so every click when installing linux feels dangerous. I have a ton of important stuff (as most people do on their OS ) that would be a nightmare if lost. Surely you all understand what losing important data is like. Thanks.

Well, it only seems to be seeing one of your drives, probably the first drive (nt boot disc). It appears to be about 20GB in size. So, stop there and resolve this issue. Fedora should see the second drive and all the partitions on it. As indicated it will only remove the Linux partitions or use unallocated space, so it should leave the NTFS partition alone. As I said, my concern here is that it only seems to be finding the one disc.

O no that's not a screen shot of my system, sorry... That's from fedora's website.

Ok. The I presume it shows both of your drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb? You will probably want to select the "Advanced Storage Configuration" option shown. That should allow you to use the second drive to install Linux. The bootloader should handle that for you once you have partitioned it. You will want 4 partitions: /boot, /, swap, and probably /home. /boot doesn't have to be too big. I am only using a bit over 17MB for a half dozen bootable 64bit versions. Allocate as much swap as you have memory, up to 2x that amount as a rule. Since you have a limited amount of disc space for Linux, you might want to combine the root and /home partitions into just a root partition. The system will create a /home directory there for you. So, figure on 50-100MB for /boot, 2-4GB for swap (assuming you have 1-2GB of RAM), and the rest for / - that would give you over 25GB for programs and data. As for the NTFS partition, Fedora should leave that alone if you partition the 30GB part you have reserved for Linux yourself.