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I followed some instructions which I found on youtube, all was going smoothly untill it said that there is no operating system installed which clearly is wrong since I have windows 10 installed. I do not want to unistall windows 10, but run Ubuntu as a dual-boot. I tried googling for answers but the problem is that I do not understand any of the instructions I find there. I do not know a thing about computers. I think I could get it to work if someone would tell me exactly what to do. That would mean the world to me. Thanks in advance

Martti Kaasalainen
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The Windows file system looks dirty to Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu installer can't see that Windows is there. This is because Windows uses a hibernation file to save the system state.

You'll need to do this in Windows:

  • open the Power control panel
  • click on change what the power buttons do
  • click on change options that are unavailable
  • uncheck fast start
  • close the Power control panel
  • open an administrative command prompt window
  • type powercfg /h off (turns off hibernation)
  • type chkdsk /f c:
  • approve that chkdsk runs at next boot time
  • reboot Windows

Then retry the Ubuntu installer and you'll probably have better luck.

heynnema
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  • Thanks for you reply, unfortunately it still does not recognise the windows 10 – Martti Kaasalainen Feb 06 '17 at 23:13
  • @MarttiKaasalainen then review the post by karel and see if something there works for you. – heynnema Feb 06 '17 at 23:20
  • @MarttiKaasalainen did you go through ALL of my steps, including rebooting Windows? – heynnema Feb 06 '17 at 23:22
  • I can't uncheck fast start unless I enable hibernation, so I did that before unchecking fast start, otherwise I did just as you said – Martti Kaasalainen Feb 06 '17 at 23:23
  • @MarttiKaasalainen that's correct. If you re-enable hibernation, you could re-check the fast start setting, and then disable hibernation again. The rebooting of Windows is most important after doing the other steps. – heynnema Feb 06 '17 at 23:25
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    That is how I did it – Martti Kaasalainen Feb 06 '17 at 23:25
  • @MarttiKaasalainen then unfortunately my solution isn't going to help you. Check the post by karel for more things to check. Like the Windows partition being too full, etc. – heynnema Feb 06 '17 at 23:27
  • @MarttiKaasalainen if you're going to shrink the Windows partition manually, make sure that you do this from Windows, using Windows Disk Management application. Don't use the Ubuntu installer or gparted. – heynnema Feb 06 '17 at 23:37
  • That is how I did it. But I already went and uninstalle w10 and I'm running only ubuntu now – Martti Kaasalainen Feb 07 '17 at 11:49