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I wanted to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10. My ASUS FX553VD-DM234T laptop has a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.

First of all, I made a clean installation of Windows 10 (booted from an USB to do so; not that built-in "reset") and deleted all partitions as soon as I had the chance to (so I got left 2 drives with 100% unallocated space each). I installed windows 10 on the SSD.

Then I created a 800GB partition on the HDD with Windows' built-in tool. 200GB unallocated space left.

Now I followed this guide (seemed to be the one I needed) step by step and I'm certain I didn't forget anything or got anything wrong.

And here's where I'm stuck now: as soon as the installation is done and I can click the "restart now" button, the computer freezes. What I did then (after several minutes waiting) was to force the computer to shutdown (pressing the power button) and try starting it up again and pick Ubuntu where I can chose between this and Windows. It's the same problem, it freezes during the loading screen (if it even gets until there, that is).

I couldn't find any solution, and I'm starting to get pretty frustrated after the third try now.

I don't know if this image helps.

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I just thought it seems strange that both show the same drive (the SSD), even though I definitely installed Ubuntu on the HDD only.

karel
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  • P.S. The boot option both being on the same disk is normal as Ubuntu will boot off the EFI partition which is always on the first disk, but then load it's OS files from the HDD. (you have the problem mentioned in the duplicate question) – Fabby Oct 03 '18 at 18:58

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