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So i wanted to switch from windows to ubuntu, a complete switch not a dual boot and I selected the option to do that in the installation options which was to erase my disk and switch to ubuntu instead of choosing the option to run ubuntu alongside windows. I installed ubuntu on my SSD drive so my 240GB one instead of my 1TB HDD.

Anyway when I go to check my files I see this, didn't like how I saw "Windows Network" because I thought I made the switch to Ubuntu:

Clicked on "Other Locations" to see this"

When I click on my other drive I see all these files that I had on my PC from when I had windows (only played genshin for an hour lol) When I click on my other drive I see all these files that I had on my other PC from windows

Just in case someone asked what happens if I clicked on "Windows Network Just in case someone asked what happens if I clicked on "Windows Network"

Why does it have my old files from when I had windows? and what is that Windows Network doing in my files, how do I get rid of them and use my other drive for installing things onto it because I wanna only have Ubuntu on my SSD

KillMe
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  • Ok I understand your concept of the 2 houses and that I demolished one of them which was my (SSD). I thought in the installation it would destroy 2 of the houses, but I can't use that other drive at all meaning I can't download anything on it. – KillMe Mar 22 '23 at 13:52
  • You can format it using GParted to the 'EXT4' or 'BTRFS' format. Then write down the UUID of that disk. Then you can change your 'Fstab'-file ( as Root ) and make your /home-partition on that disk. – HomerSimpson Mar 22 '23 at 14:23

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Windows Network

Windows uses a network file sharing protocol called SMB (aka Samba). Ubuntu comes with Samba to communicate with other Windows computer in the same network. This means if you have other computers running Windows in your home network, and you set up these Windows computers to share files and folders over the home network, Ubuntu can access those files and folders. It appears you don't have any Windows computer in your home, or you have not set them up to share files. Hence you get the error when you click on Windows Network icon under Other Locations. Other locations means other computers in your home this context.

Files in the "Other Drive"

Say you had two houses. You demolished one house and built a new one in it's place. Then you go to the 2nd house and find it has all the old furniture inside! Those are your furniture in the second house.

You had two drives, an SSD and a HDD. When you installed Ubuntu in the SSD, the installation process formatted the SSD. At that time the installation warned you that it will delete everything in the SSD. Since the HDD is a different physical drive Ubuntu installation did not touch it.

Note. Windows confuse you with C: drive and D: drive, where these are actually partitions. The D: drive can be a partition within the SSD or a partition within the HDD. If D: drive was in the SSD it would have been erased during the installation. If the D: drive is in the HDD it won't be erased, as it seems to be in your case.

Therefore, when you look inside the HDD and find some furniture, I mean files.

The NTFS partition is Read Only

This is because by default Windows uses Fast Startup, which does not properly shut down the computer (and the drives) when you shut down your computer. I assume you did not disable this feature in Windows before you shutdown Windows for the last time (before you installed Ubuntu).

Ubuntu sees the partition in your HDD as "dirty" and opens it in Read Only mode. Usually we recommend you fix problems created by Windows by booting Windows. In this case that is not an option. However, you are not the first (or the last) person to be in this position. This site has many questions and answers on this topic. These two may help:

Fix corrupt NTFS partition without Windows

How to correctly fix a "dirty" NTFS partition without using chkdsk

Alternate solution: Reformat and Reuse

First copy any files and folder you want to save from the HDD, in an external drive.

Then format the partition in the HDD (it looks like a single partition in the HDD) using the ext4 format, the native partition type used by Ubuntu. Since you don't have Windows in this computer, I recommend you do not use the NFTS format. This is because, if and when an NTFS formatted partition gets corrupt, you may need to boot Windows to fix it.

See this answer for more on using the second HDD:

How to enable full permissions on internal secondary HDD?

Hope this helps

user68186
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