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Windows 10 blanked out on my computer and now I need to install Ubuntu to recover my data.

I want to delete the Windows 10 boot partition (9.5 GB) because it doesn’t work anyways and I need the extra space to finish the Ubuntu install. I just don’t want to lose my data on the main hard drive.

Partition table

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Yusamac205
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  • It looks like NTFS partition may be hibernated. Then you can only manually mount read only using Linux NTFS driver. http://askubuntu.com/questions/843153/ubuntu-16-showing-windows-10-partitions & https://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation – oldfred Mar 08 '21 at 18:09

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This partition is weird, an EFI boot partition is max. ~1G and is never in NTFS.

This must be a data partition, spin up the live USB OS run on the terminal

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
cd /mnt
ls

If it fails do apt install -y ntfs-3g and retry

If it is empty you can just delete it, othewise have a backup before deleting

Nicolas Formichella
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  • I know that partition doesn’t have any of my data on it. I’m just wondering if my data is reliant on the Windows OS. Like, if I delete the OS, if my data will be gone. – Yusamac205 Mar 08 '21 at 21:55
  • No, not at all, if you're sure that no data sits on that partition, feel free to delete it, you'll still be able to access it – Nicolas Formichella Mar 11 '21 at 07:56