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I recently bought a SSD and cloned my windows partition using EaseUS tool. I left some space unallocated in order to install Ubuntu.

The last step in the installation is choosing if you prefer deleting the information in your disk or doing Something else. I choose this option but it can't load the partition manager and the installer stops working. I have tried more than 10 times and all the times happened the same.

I guess it is some problem in the disk configuration, so already installed gparted and created an ext4 partition, but it has solved nothing.

Things I have checked:

  • my disk is not dynamic
  • Machine is is in AHCI mode
  • I have deactivated hibernation
  • reinstalled Windows from scratch...

And Ubuntu still does not recognize the installation.

The kernel version is 4.18.0-15-generic and the output to sudo parted --list is:

sudo parted --list
Model: ATA WDC WDS500G2B0A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

realloc(): invalid next size
Aborted

In one of the ~20 tries I have done I could access the partition manager during installation, it said the ssd was 500 GB but only showed a 120 MB partition that occupied 100% percent of the space, really weird:

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EaseUS has botched your partition table and Ubuntu is not even able to read it as per your output of parted --list. That Windows is still able to boot is a small miracle but luckily for you, you saw this early on and I'm expecting huge problems if you continue to use the machine in this state.

As you've just reinstalled Windows 10 anyway, do the following in the following order:

  1. Boot Ubuntu Live
  2. Open gparted
    • Device
    • Create Partition Table
    • Choose GPT
  3. Reboot and install Windows (yeah, again)
  4. Boot Ubuntu Live again.
  5. Use gparted to make space for Ubuntu (no need for third-party tools, you're the second one today that botched his system with EaseUS)
  6. Reboot and install Ubuntu
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