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Windows 10 blanked out on my computer and now I need to install Ubuntu to recover my data.

I want to delete the Windows 10 boot partition (9.5 GB) because it doesn’t work anyways and I need the extra space to finish the Ubuntu install. I just don’t want to lose my data on the main hard drive.

Partition table

Pizza
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Yusamac205
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This partition is weird, an EFI boot partition is max. ~1G and is never in NTFS.

This must be a data partition, spin up the live USB OS run on the terminal

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
cd /mnt
ls

If it fails do apt install -y ntfs-3g and retry

If it is empty you can just delete it, othewise have a backup before deleting

Nicolas Formichella
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