I'm probably being daft but hit a wall.
My new hard drive arrived today, so I installed Windows on it. As this SSD is 240GB I would like to also install Ubuntu. This machine is a laptop. My previous setup I also split the OS and Data into separate partitions in case the OS was fubarred I can just re-install without losing files.
My goal was to have a partition each for Windows 7 and Ubuntu (so this is two separate partitions, three including swap). Also, a separate NTFS partition for files. However Windows has created a "system reserved" partition.
So currently I have: system reserved, Windows, Ubuntu, swap, free space
When I go to make the free space an NTFS partition I'm told the drive already contains the maximum number of partitions.
Am I doing something wrong?