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I understand this is not a coding question but i know this community can help

I purchased a new dell laptop having 2TB HDD. Initially it has only one partition so I shrink and made another partition using windows disk manager utility but I concluded that it was not enough for me.

I wanted to make a 500 GB partition for Windows, Another 500GB partition to put my random stuff in it and a 1TB partition to Install Ubuntu as a dual boot OS. So I made further partition using Ubuntu's GParted Utility and following is the result.

Following is the list of partition in my hard disk as shown by diskpart utility.
Partition ###     Type         Size    Offset
--------------   ---------    -------  ------------
Partition 1      System        500 MB  1024 KB
Partition 2      OEM            40 MB   501 MB
Partition 3      Reserved      128 MB   541 MB
Partition 4      Recovery      750 MB   669 MB
Partition 5      Primary       464 GB  1419 MB
Partition 7      Primary       464 GB   466 GB
Partition 6      Recovery     7933 MB  1855 GB

and following are the volume partition
Volume ###   Ltr   Label        Fs       Type        Size     Status    Info
----------   ---   -----------  ------   ----------  -------  --------  -------
Volume 0      G                          DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
Volume 1      C    OS           NTFS     Partition    464 GB  Healthy
Volume 2      D    New Volume   NTFS     Partition    464 GB  Healthy
Volume 3           ESP          FAT32    Partition    500 MB  Healthy  Hidden
Volume 4      E    WINRETOOLS   NTFS     Partition    750 MB  Healthy  Hidden
Volume 5      F    PBR Image    NTFS     Partition   7933 MB  Healthy  Hidden
Volume 6           DIAGS        Fat32    Partition     40 MB  Healthy  Hidden


I stop Ubuntu installation because it was giving me some warning related to UEIF. While troubleshooting I came to this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI to resolve it which I didn't get at all.

Now I am unable to boot even windows. On booting my laptop showing me No Boot Device Found.

I tried to recover everything back to normal so i tried to recover from Recovery partition but it fails to recover. Now I want to start from scratch and get what I wanted as follow.

Make all the extra recovery partitions (If Possible but positively).
Make 500 GB NTFS Partition for Windows
Make 500 GB NTFS Partition for extra stuff along with Windows
Make a Partition for Ubuntu Swipe space
Make rest of partition to Install Ubuntu in it. [with resolving problem of UEIF]

Can someone guide me or provide me some helpful links which can guide me to do so.
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Sep-15 3:30am    
Sorry, you screed up things badly. Next time, be more careful. I hope you did not damage the Windows recovery partition, so it can be restored.

The only problem with your question is: this is off-topic. You are just using OS and utilities, not writing code. Sorry again.

—SA

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