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I purchased a new hard drive and I want to install Ubuntu 16 on it. I do not want to dual boot with windows I just want to install Ubuntu. I already have a boot CD with Ubuntu on it. When I tried to use the boot disk and install Ubuntu on my new hard drive it didn't work. I hooked up the new hard drive to my windows computer and I can see that all the space is still unallocated. I thought the install would partition the drive as needed. Do I need to partition the new drive myself for an Ubuntu install and if so how? I have installed Ubuntu before on an old Windows drive and it worked fine. It just erased everything and did the install.

Also, I have an Intel i7 processor and the iso says it's for AMD. I thought that it should still work but maybe that's a factor.

I know that there are similar question but they don't seem to address the particular issue I am having:

Installing ubuntu on new hard drive

Installing on a new hard drive

How can I install Ubuntu on an external hardrive from Windows?

And i have already read How do I install Ubuntu?.

If that had solved my issue i wouldn't be asking the question.

NOTE: When I tried to intall ubuntu I used the boot CD and selected install. Then it displayed the image attached and was stuck there for over 24 hours. I ended up just shutting it of. image

msquared
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Your question is really confusing, if i understand correctly, you want to remove windows, and install ubuntu, but you also have a new harddrive and that wasn't formatted correctly for the install. Also, i don't think there's an iso for amd. The installation iso works for both amd and intel, but you have to look if it's 32bit or 64 bit. Are you trying to install ubuntu from inside windows, or are you booting from the install cd? if you just normally boot from the install cd, you should just be able to select your windows drive and format it, and then install right onto that drive... you don't have to manually do the partitioning, it will give you the option to do so, but that's for advanced users.

Glenn van Acker
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