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I have been trying to make this work for 3 days straight right now. I just installed Ubuntu on a USB (San Disk Cruzer Glide 32GB) on Windows 10. I know that the installation is correct since my brother tried it on his computer and it works, and he also has Windows 10. Here are some other specs about my computer:

Motherboard: msi tomahawk b350  
CPU: AMD Ryzen 2400g

I have installed all the drivers. My boot priority has the USB drive first. The hard drive that Ubuntu is getting installed on is my C drive with 300 GB unallocated space and partitioned.

I can't screenshot the startup steps, but I can do my best to explain it. When I turn on my computer, the first thing that shows up is a black screen with a few options:

Ubuntu  
Ubuntu (safe graphics)  
a few others I didn't think were important...

I click the first option (Ubuntu), and then it takes me to a loading screen where it keeps on saying connection timed out. Then after a while it takes me to a screen, where it shows my motherboards regular startup screen but smaller, text that says "Ubuntu" on the bottom, and then a circle going round and round. I waited for a while, and eventually the loading circle froze itself. I went to sleep and when I woke up it was still at the same screen.

I think that's all the information you need, if there is anything else please tell me in the comments.

nishantc1527
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If you are sure that the USB is a live installation media, than you can try spamming the boot menu button, which seems to be the f11 key while the computer is booting up. This will prompt you for a boot menu to select the boot device you'd like to use. At that point choose USB or the San Disk Cruzer Glide 32GB and let the installation continue. Once you have installed Ubuntu, make sure that you take out the installation media (USB) BEFORE starting the computer again. Than you should boot into the correct OS!

Gloat
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It seems to me that your computer gets stuck when starting X. The startup image of your motherboard with the circle means the framebuffer boot is working (you can press Esc during that loading screen to see what's happening) but likely gets stuck when the display manager is starting. What is your current GPU? My suggestion would be to try starting with safe graphics and if you manage to boot, install the appropriate proprietary drivers.

Giovanni Beltrame
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Some steps to check before installing from a liveUSB installer:

Enter your firmware and check/set the following options:

Fast boot : Disabled (this leaves initialization of a lot of devices to the installed OS often preventing booting a live environment other than DOS)

Secure boot : Disabled (Can also prevent booting from USB devices or anything else then the registered OS (windows 10))

CSM or Legacy mode or Both Legacy & UEFI : Disable any of those if you still want to use Windows 10 as well, use only UEFI mode.

Then retry to boot from the liveUSB and install Ubuntu

Ferdi
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You can't install Ubuntu onto a USB stick which works on one system and automatically assume it will work on another system. If you had created a live USB stick you could assume it will boot on another system.

I'd suggest creating a regular Live USB stick and boot with that. For a trial run you can make a persistent Live USB stick instead of installing your Live USB to a USB stick.

WinEunuuchs2Unix
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