Harddisk space and c++/phyton

[huNti]

I just have ubuntu installed, and I know the basics already. However, I don't have that much harddisk space on my ubuntu (77 GB). On my windows (dualboot) I still have 500GB left on my acer D. Is there a way to convert it to ubuntu?

I'm going to start soon with c++ and phyton. However, I need to know what is best with c++ and phyton, What is the best linux version to use it for?

Thanks in advance

huNti

[atreyu]

First off, 77GB is a crap-load of space. anyway, it is relatively straight-forward to convert that windows partition to a native Linux file format. First, a couple questions:

This drive "D:" in Windows is a secondary drive, right? Windows is installed to C:, yes?

And you only have one hard drive connected, right?

From within Linux, run this command, and show us the output, so we can see your partition table:

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Then we can help you run the commands required to convert the partition to a Linux native file system.

Note: you can possibly mount the partition as-is in Linux and use it that way, but that is only suggested if you want access to the data from Windows. If it is to be used primarily for Linux, then it is best to convert it, as you've indicated.