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I just got a new SSD and installed Ubuntu there. I already had windows 10 installed on a different SSD.

I mostly followed the information in Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on Separate SSD.

However, I did not configure anything related to boot EFI etc, as it does not seem to apply for my PC (?). It works relatively normally, when I start the PC I can choose between windows and Ubuntu in the GNU GRUB menu. The problem is that now only 4 GB out of the 6 GB of RAM are available, in both windows and Ubuntu. In windows it specifically says that 6 GB are installed but only 4 available. In Ubuntu it just says 3.8 GB.

Does anyone know why this may be happening, or what I can do to fix it?

This is the output of sudo lshw -C memory:

  *-firmware                
       description: BIOS
       vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
       physical id: 0
       version: F2
       date: 11/10/2009
       size: 128KiB
       capacity: 1984KiB
       capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
  *-cache:0
       description: L1 cache
       physical id: c
       slot: Internal Cache
       size: 64KiB
       capacity: 64KiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
       configuration: level=1
  *-cache:1
       description: L2 cache
       physical id: d
       slot: External Cache
       size: 8MiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
       configuration: level=2
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 16
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 6GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: DIMM 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
          physical id: 0
          slot: A0
          size: 2GiB
          width: 2244 bits
          clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 1
          slot: A1
     *-bank:2
          description: DIMM 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
          physical id: 2
          slot: A2
          size: 2GiB
          width: 2244 bits
          clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 3
          slot: A3
     *-bank:4
          description: DIMM 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
          physical id: 4
          slot: A4
          size: 2GiB
          width: 2244 bits
          clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
     *-bank:5
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 5
          slot: A5

I also ran memtest. All the RAM appears but the total memory is shown as 4095:

I also ran memtest, all RAM appears but the total memory is shown as 4095

Eliah Kagan
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